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English

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asong (sense 1) sung by a person

Etymology

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FromMiddle Englishsong,sang, fromOld Englishsang, fromProto-West Germanic*sangu, fromProto-Germanic*sangwaz(“singing, song”), fromProto-Indo-European*sengʷʰ-(“to sing”). Cognate withScotssang,song(“singing, song”),Saterland FrisianSong(“song”),West Frisiansang(“song”),Dutchzang(“song”),Low Germansang(“song”),GermanSang(“singing, song”),Swedishsång(“song”),Norwegian Bokmålsang(“song”),Norwegian Nynorsksong(“song”),Icelandicsöngur(“song”),Ancient Greekὀμφή(omphḗ,“voice, oracle”). More atsing.

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Noun

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song (countable anduncountable,pluralsongs)

  2. (music) A musicalcomposition withlyrics forvoice or voices, performed bysinging.
    Thomas listened to his favoritesong on the radio yesterday.
    • 1568, William Cornishe [i.e.,William Cornysh], “In the Fleete Made by Me William Cornishe otherwise Called Nyshwhete Chapelman with the Most Famose and Noble KyngHenry the VII. His Reygne the XIX. Yere the Moneth of July. A Treatise betwene Trouth, and Information.”, inJohn Skelton, edited byJ[ohn] S[tow],Pithy Pleasaunt and Profitable Workes of Maister Skelton, Poete Laureate, Imprinted at London: InFletestreate, neare vntoSaint Dunstones Churche by Thomas Marshe,→OCLC; republished asPithy Pleasaunt and Profitable Workes of Maister Skelton, Poete Laureate to King Henry the VIIIth, London: Printed for C. Davis inPater-noster Row,1736,→OCLC,page290:
      The Harpe.[…] A harper with hiswreſt maye tune the harpe wrong / Mys tunying of an Inſtrument ſhal hurt a trueſonge
    • 1852, Mrs M.A. Thompson, “The Tutor's Daughter”, inGraham's American Monthly Magazine of Literature, Art, and Fashion, page266:
      In the lightness of my heart I sang catches ofsongs as my horse gayly bore me along the well-remembered road.
    • 1918,W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter V, inThe Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.:The Bobbs-Merrill Company,→OCLC:
      He was thinking; but the glory of thesong, the swell from the great organ, the clustered lights, […], the height and vastness of this noble fane, its antiquity and its strength—all these things seemed to have their part as causes of the thrilling emotion that accompanied his thoughts.
  3. (by extension) Any musicalcomposition.
  5. Poetical composition;poetry;verse.
  6. The act orart ofsinging.
    • 1884, Spencer Leigh Hughes, “The Weather. A Short Study on a Great Subject.”, inGolden Hours: A Monthly Magazine for Family and General Reading, volume XVII, London: Lile and Fawcett, […], page28, column 1:
      How often the enthusiast has dwelt upon the birds bursting intosong, 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.
    • 1942, Robert Peter Tristram Coffin,The Substance that is Poetry (Patten Foundation series)‎[1], Macmillan,→LCCN,→OCLC, page71:
      Or take one that is less of an explanation and more of asong , 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.[…]
  7. Amelodious sound made by abird,insect,whale or otheranimal.
    I love hearing thesong of canary birds.
    • 1833,Nathaniel Hawthorne,The Canterbury Pilgrims:
      That most ethereal of all sounds, thesong of crickets.
    • 1886,Peter Christen Asbj&oslash￵rnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad,Folk and Fairy Tales, page85:
      The robin alone by his soft morningsong broke the silence and the solitude which reigned in the forest.
  8. (ornithology) The distinctive sound that a male bird utters to attract amate or toprotect histerritory;contrasts withcall; also, similar vocalisations made by female birds.
  9. A lowprice, especially one under the expectedvalue; chiefly infor a song.
    He bought that car for asong.
    • 1810,Benjamin Silliman,A Journal of Travels in England, Holland and Scotland:
      his [a common soldier's] pay is asong.
    • 1913,Mrs. [Marie] Belloc Lowndes, chapter I, inThe Lodger, London:Methuen,→OCLC; republished inNovels of Mystery: The Lodger; The Story of Ivy; What Really Happened, New York, N.Y.:Longmans, Green and Co., […],[1933],→OCLC,page0016:
      Thus the red damask curtains which now shut out the fog-laden, drizzling atmosphere of the Marylebone Road, had cost a meresong, and yet they might have been warranted to last another thirty years. A great bargain also had been the excellent Axminster carpet which covered the floor; […].
  10. (obsolete) An object ofderision; alaughing stock.

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Translations

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music with words
musical composition
the act or art of singing
sound of a bird—seebirdsong
sound of another animal
inexpensive deal
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See also

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Anagrams

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Ao

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Pronunciation

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  • (Chungli)IPA(key): /suŋ˧/,[suŋ˧]

Noun

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song

  1. (Chungli)rust

Further reading

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  • Bruhn, Daniel Wayne (2014),A Phonological Reconstruction of Proto-Central Naga‎[2], Berkeley: University of California, pages71-72
  • Clark, Mary M. (1893),Ao Naga grammar with illustrative phrases and vocabulary, Molung: Assam Secretariat Printing Office, page156

Atong (India)

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Etymology

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Cognate withGarosong.Thisetymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

Noun

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song

  1. village

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Central Bikol

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song

  1. rhinoceros beetle

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Chuukese

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Adjective

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song

  1. angry

Dutch

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Etymology

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Borrowed fromEnglishsong.Doublet ofzang.

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Noun

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song m (pluralsongs,nodiminutive)

  1. song
    Synonyms:lied,liedje

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Faroese

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Etymology

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FromOld Norsesæing(“bed”), latersæng.

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Noun

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song f (genitive singularsongarorseingjar,pluralseingirorsengur)

  1. bed

Declension

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f11singularplural
indefinitedefiniteindefinitedefinite
nominativesongsonginseingir,sengurseingirnar,sengurnar
accusativesongsonginaseingir,sengurseingirnar,sengurnar
dativesongsonginiseingjumseingjunum
genitiveseingjar,songarseingjarrinar,songarinnarseingjaseingjanna

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Garo

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Etymology

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(Thisetymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at theEtymology scriptorium.)

Noun

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song

  1. village,hamlet
  2. classifier for villages

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Mandarin

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Romanization

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song

  1. nonstandard spelling ofsōng
  2. nonstandard spelling ofsóng
  3. nonstandard spelling ofsǒng
  4. nonstandard spelling ofsòng

Usage notes

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  • Transcriptions of Mandarin into the Latin script often do not distinguish between the criticaltonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without indication of tone.

Middle English

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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FromOld Englishsang,song, fromProto-West Germanic*sangw, fromProto-Germanic*sangwaz.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /sɔnɡ/,/sɔːnɡ/,/sanɡ/,/saːnɡ/

Noun

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song (pluralsonges)

  1. Asong(lyrical music):
    1. Religious or spiritualchanting orhymns.
    2. Anexposition or story, especially asung one.
    3. A song supposed to haveoccult ormagical power.
  2. The practice or an instance ofsinging songs.
  3. The sound produced by abird(rarely other creatures)
  4. Atune; non-lyricalmusic.
  5. Aquip,declaration, orremark.
  6. Apoem; a written work inverse.

Declension

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Declension ofsong
singularplural
(nominative/accusative)songsonges
genitivesongessonges
dativesonge1songen2

1Optional; mostly fossilised after Early Middle English.
2Only found in Early Middle English and optional there.

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Norwegian Nynorsk

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Etymology

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FromOld Norsesǫngr. Akin toEnglishsong.

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Noun

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song m (definite singularsongen,indefinite pluralsongar,definite pluralsongane)

  1. song
    Kven er det som syng dennesongen?
    Who sings thissong?

Derived terms

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Verb

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song

  1. past ofsyngja andsynga

References

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Old English

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Pronunciation

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Noun

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song m

  1. alternative form ofsang

Declension

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Stronga-stem:

singularplural
nominativesongsongas
accusativesongsongas
genitivesongessonga
dativesongesongum

Polish

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Etymology

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Borrowed fromEnglishsong.[1][2]

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Noun

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song m inan

  1. (music, theater)musical theatersong, usually withsocial orpoliticalcommentary(Is there an English equivalent to this definition?)

Declension

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Declension ofsong
singularplural
nominativesongsongi
genitivesongusongów
dativesongowisongom
accusativesongsongi
instrumentalsongiemsongami
locativesongusongach
vocativesongusongi

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  1. ^Mirosław Bańko; Lidia Wiśniakowska (2021), “song”, inWielki słownik wyrazów obcych,→ISBN
  2. ^Witold Doroszewski, editor (1958–1969), “song”, inSłownik języka polskiego (in Polish), Warszawa:PWN

Further reading

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  • song inWielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • song in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Tok Pisin

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Etymology

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FromEnglishsong.

Noun

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song

  1. song

Tyap

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Noun

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song

  1. dance

Verb

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song

  1. todance

Vietnamese

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Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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FromProto-Vietic*k-rɔːŋ(“rush [plant]”). Cognate withChut [Rục]kərɔːŋ¹ ("rush") andkrɔːŋ ("rattan").

Noun

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(classifiercây) song• (双,𫁷,󰓖)

  1. bigrattan

Etymology 2

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    Sino-Vietnamese word from窗(“window”).

    Noun

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    song• (窻,雙,窓,牕)

    1. (archaic, literary)window
    2. short forchấn song(“uprightpost in apaling orrailing”)
      sausong sắt ―behind (iron) bars
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    Etymology 3

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      Sino-Vietnamese word from雙(“double;pair”).

      Prefix

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      song

      1. bi-;double;parallel
        song đấm ―twin punches; punches performed with both hands

      Adverb

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      song

      1. (formal)however
      2. (formal)but
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      Zhuang

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      Etymology

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      FromProto-Tai*soːŋᴬ, fromMiddle Chinese雙 (MC sraewng, “two”). Cognate withThaiสอง(sɔ̌ɔng),Northern Thaiᩈᩬᨦ,Laoສອງ(sǭng),Lüᦉᦸᧂ(ṡoang),Tai Damꪎꪮꪉ,Shanသွင်(sǎung),Tai Nüaᥔᥩᥒᥴ(sóang),Ahom𑜏𑜨𑜂𑜫(soṅ),Bouyeisoongl.

      Pronunciation

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      Numeral

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      song (Sawndip forms雙or双or松,1957–1982 spellingsoŋ)

      1. two
        song bak
        two hundred
        • 2008, Rint Sybesma, “Zhuang: A Tai language with some Sinitic characteristics”, in Pieter Muysken, editor,From Linguistic Areas to Areal Linguistics, page246:
          Defwngzndeuyaeujndaejsongdoengjraemxbae!
          3shandoneraiseACQtwobucketwaterPRT
          "S/he can lifttwo buckets of water with one hand!"

      Usage notes

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      Used withndeu rather thanit.

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