See also Song, sōng, sǒng, sòng, and sông

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English

Etymology

Old English sang.

Pronunciation

Noun

song (plural songs)

  1. A musical piece with lyrics (or "words to sing"); prose that one can sing.
    Thomas listened to his favorite song on the radio yesterday.
    • 1852 Mrs M.A. Thompson, “The Tutor's Daughter”, in Graham's American Monthly Magazine of Literature, Art, and Fashion[1], page 266:
      In the lightness of my heart I sang catches of songs as my horse gayly bore me along the well-remembered road.
  2. A musical sound by a bird.
  3. A musical sound by insect, whale or some other animal which sounds melodious to humans.
    I love hearing the song of canary birds.
  4. Something that cost only a little.
    He bought that car for a song.

Derived terms

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Anagrams

Faroese

Pronunciation

Noun

song f.

  1. bed

Declension

Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative song songin seingir/ sengur seingirnar/ sengurnar
Accusative song songina seingir/ sengur seingirnar/ sengurnar
Dative song songini seingjum seingjunum
Genitive seingjar/ songar seingjarinnar/ songarinnar seingja seingjanna

Mandarin

Verb

song (Pinyin sòng, traditional and simplified 送)

  1. deliver
    songcai shengjiangji shi yi-zhong song fan-cai de xiaoxing shengjiangji.
    dumbwaiter is a kind of small lift for delivering meal.

Pinyin syllable

song

  1. Nonstandard spelling of sōng.
  2. Nonstandard spelling of sǒng.
  3. Nonstandard spelling of sòng.

Usage notes

English transcriptions of Chinese speech often fail to distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Chinese language, using words such as this one without the appropriate indication of tone.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Old Norse sǫngr.

Noun

song m. (definite singular songen; indefinite plural songar; definite plural songane)

  1. song
    Kven er det som syng denne songen?
    Who sings this song?

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