song

UK /sɒŋ/ US /sɔŋ/

name 9noun 5

Collocations

(noun.) piece of music with words

ADJ

beautiful, good, great, lovely | catchy | mournful, sad

country, folk, pop/popular, traditional

My grandmother loves singing old traditional songs from her childhood.

bawdy, children's, drinking, love, patriotic, protest, religious

The children's song was so catchy that everyone in the classroom started singing along.

theme, title

My favorite part of the movie was listening to the title song during the opening credits.

VERB + SONG

compose, write

do, perform, play, sing

My daughter loves to sing a song before bedtime every single night.

record

SONG + NOUN

writer (also songwriter)

My favorite song writer created that beautiful melody I heard on the radio yesterday.

contest

PREP

in (a/the) ~

The local community expressed their grief in song at the memorial service.

~ about

She wrote a beautiful song about her childhood memories in the countryside.

(noun.) act of singing

VERB + SONG

break into, burst into

At the wedding reception, guests suddenly broke into song when the bride and groom walked in.

PREP

in ~

The children gathered around the campfire and joined in song together.

Definitions

noun

A musical composition with lyrics for voice or voices, performed by singing.

Thomas listened to his favorite song on the radio yesterday.

The Harpe. […] A harper with his wreſt maye tune the harpe wrong / Mys tunying of an Inſtrument ſhal hurt a true ſonge

Any musical composition.

Poetical composition; poetry; verse.

This subject for heroic song.

The bard that first adorned our native tongue / Tuned to his British lyre this ancient song.

The act or art of singing.

How often the enthusiast has dwelt upon the birds bursting into song, the buds bursting into flower, all nature bursting into life!—as though a state of things in which everything around us is bursting is at all pleasant.

Or take one that is less of an explanation and more of a song , The Spider . I knew all along what I wanted to say about a spider . I wanted to say all the good things I could . For spiders are the one order of creation that I thoroughly dislike.[…]

A melodious sound made by a bird, insect, whale or other animal.

I love hearing the song of canary birds.

That most ethereal of all sounds, the song of crickets.

name

A former dynasty in China, reigning from the end of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms to the beginning of the Yuan.

Up until the Song dynasty (960 to 1279 A.D.), it was the case that, like in the West, each person would get their own meal.

A 1,000-year-old bowl from China's Song Dynasty sold at auction for $37.7 million on Tuesday, breaking the record for Chinese porcelain, auction house Sotheby's said. The small piece -- which dates from 960-1127 -- broke the previous record of $36.05 million set in 2014 for a Ming Dynasty wine cup which was sold to a Shanghai tycoon.

A former empire in China, occupying the eastern half of modern China.

The era of Chinese history during which the dynasty reigned.

A surname from Chinese.

A river in China; any of various minor rivers in China.

name

A river in Papua New Guinea.

Thesaurus

Synonyms

noun — the act of singing

strain

noun — the characteristic sound produced by a bird

noun — a short musical composition with words

vocal

noun — the imperial dynasty of China from 960 to 1279

sung

Antonyms

Idioms & Phrases

go for a song

To be sold at a very low price.

swan song

A final performance or accomplishment, especially one before retirement.

Yet, on the whole, our good Saint-Pierre is musical, poetical though most morbid: we will call his Book the swan-song of old dying France.

for a song

For a very low price; very cheaply.

They remembered then that they could have bought for a song canvases which now were worth large sums.

siren song

An enticing but dangerous appeal, especially a misleading one.

Romance never sang to him her siren song, and Adventure had never shouted in his sluggish blood.

old song

A trifle; nothing of value.

I do not intend to be thus put off with an old song.

Example Bank

Thomas listened to his favorite song on the radio yesterday.

Wiktionary

The Harpe. […] A harper with his wreſt maye tune the harpe wrong / Mys tunying of an Inſtrument ſhal hurt a true ſonge

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In the lightness of my heart I sang catches of songs as my horse gayly bore me along the well-remembered road.

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Up until the Song dynasty (960 to 1279 A.D.), it was the case that, like in the West, each person would get their own meal.

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The brightest supernova in your Milky Way galaxy to be visible from Earth was seen and recorded by the Chinese during the Song Dynasty on the 4th of July in A.D. 1054.

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Usage Notes

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In some senses, song is marked as historical. Watch for register when choosing this word.

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