Did you perchance mean songs?
Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Music A brief composition written or adapted for singing.
- n. Music The act or art of singing: broke into song.
- n. A distinctive or characteristic sound made by an animal, such as a bird or an insect.
- n. Poetry; verse.
- n. A lyric poem or ballad.
- idiom. for a song Informal At a low price: bought the antique tray for a song.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Singing; vocal music in general; utterance in tones of musical quality and succession, with or without words: opposed to speech and to instrumental music.
- n. The musical cry of some birds (see singing bird, under sing) and, by extension, of some other animals.
- n. A short poem intended for singing, or set to music; a ballad or lyric. A song is properly distinguished by brevity, free use of rhythmic accent and rime, more or less division into stanzas or strophes, often with a refrain or burden, comparative directness and simplicity of sentiment, and a decidedly lyrical manner throughout.
- n. A particular melody or musical setting for such a poem, for either one or several voices (in the latter case usually called a part-song or glee). Songs are generally written in song form, but are often irregular also. They usually contain but a single movement, and have an accompaniment of a varying amount of elaboration. They are classified as folk-songs, which spring up more or less unconsciously among the common people, or art-songs, which are deliberately composed by musicians (see
lied ); as strophic, when made up of a movement repeated for the several strophes, or composed through, when the music varies with the successive strophes; or they are named by reference to their general subject or style, as rustic, patriotic, national, martial, naval, nuptial, hunting, bacchanalian, etc. - n. Poetry; poetical composition; verse.
- n. A more trifle; something of little or no value: as, I bought it for a song.
- n. A Middle English preterit of sing.
Wiktionary
- n. A musical composition with lyrics for voice or voices, performed by singing.
- n. by extension any musical composition
- n. The act or art of singing.
- n. A melodious sound made by a bird, insect, whale or other animal.
- n. Something that cost only a little; chiefly in for a song.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. That which is sung or uttered with musical modulations of the voice, whether of a human being or of a bird, insect, etc.
- n. A lyrical poem adapted to vocal music; a ballad.
- n. More generally, any poetical strain; a poem.
- n. Poetical composition; poetry; verse.
- n. An object of derision; a laughingstock.
- n. A trifle; an insignificant sum of money.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a distinctive or characteristic sound
- n. a very small sum
- n. the act of singing
- n. a short musical composition with words
- n. the imperial dynasty of China from 960 to 1279; noted for art and literature and philosophy
- n. the characteristic sound produced by a bird
Etymologies
- From Middle English song, sang, from Old English song, sang ("noise, song, singing, chanting; poetry; a poem to be sung or recited, psalm, lay"), from Proto-Germanic *sangwaz (“singing, song”), from Proto-Indo-European *sengʷh- (“to sing”). Cognate with Scots sang, song ("singing, song"), Saterland Frisian Song ("song"), West Frisian sang ("song"), Dutch zang ("song"), Low German sang ("song"), German Sang ("singing, song"), Swedish sång ("song"), Norwegian song ("song"), Icelandic söngur ("song"), Ancient Greek ὁμφή (omphḗ, "voice, stevvon"). More at sing. (Wiktionary)
- Middle English, from Old English sang; see sengwh- in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“It must be confessed, however, that the field of English slang verse and canting song, though not altogether barren, has yet small claim to the idiomatic and plastic treatment that obtains in many an _Argot - song_ and _Germania-romance; _ in truth, with a few notable exceptions, there is little in the present collection that can claim literary rank.”
Musa Pedestris - Three Centuries of Canting Songs and Slang Rhymes [1536 - 1896]
“The melody flows or soars like the song of a bird, because it is the free expression, not of musical fantasy, as such (the unconscious play of tonal fancy), but the flow of _melody_, _song_, the soaring of spirit in some one particular direction, floating upon buoyant pinions, and in directions well conceived and sure.”
A Popular History of the Art of Music From the Earliest Times Until the Present
“This was a tumultuous mixture of the wild carouse, the noisy song, and the drunken dance; and the meaning of the word comedy is a comus _song_.”
Handbook of Universal Literature From the Best and Latest Authorities
“My Dear Hodgson, -- I thank you for your song, or, rather, your two songs, -- your new song on love, and your _old song_ on _religion_.”
“because the cry here is wing to wing10 and song to song”
“On his first solo album, “Journey’s End,” Matthew Fisher wrote and sang a song with the lyric, “Just don’t make me play **that song** again.””
Should Have Thought of That in 1967 - The Lede Blog - NYTimes.com
“I'm using the term "song cycle" for Scaling because I'm really grouping these songs together.”
The Huffington Post: Daniel J. Kushner: Vital Vox: "A & Q" With Gelsey Bell
“The fascinating thing to me is that Phil Spector recorded the title song which is played over the Osterley Park sequence.”
“Peace Sells … But Who's Buying?, save for the title song which is featured on the”
“We showed a brand-new print of the film they wrote the title song for -- Jailhouse Rock and the film of the Broadway musical that celebrated their canon of songs Smoky Joe's Cafe.”
The Huffington Post: Martin Lewis: Is That All There Is? A Fond Farewell to Jerry Leiber
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These user-created lists contain the word ‘song’.
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Language
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FUN - Beatles song titles
Typical words from Beatles song titles. Can you recreate the titles?
(Grammatical words have been omitted)polythene, Sun King, rhythm and blues, taxman, tripper, monkey business, mailman, matchbox, rock and roll, ooh, blue jay, reprise and 388 more...
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MUSIC - jazz
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Music
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eggplantia5's Words
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harmony of the spheres
tonic, supertonic, mediant, subdominant, dominant, submediant, subtonic, leading tone, progression, sonata, concerto, allegro and 247 more...
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zzyyxx's Words
plethora, drout, functional, rye, wring, doubt, cognative, weird, gnaw, surcease, rend, languish and 438 more...
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Most of the Nouns from Joanna Newsom'...
meadowlark, sparrow, spree, pharoah, pharisees, comb, meadow, pines, marrow, bones, birches, spires and 95 more...
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Chainlink's Words
hat, opalescent, opal, emerald, sapphire, scythe, carnival, calliope, brilliant, awesome, feather, fantastic and 268 more...
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#1
Words I Like
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Basic English Vocabulary
Very basic words for ESL students.
a, abandon, ability, able, abortion, about, above, abroad, absence, absolute, absolutely, absorb and 4334 more...
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Musical words
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loinfruit's Words
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The Jumblies
They went to sea in a Sieve, they did,
In a Sieve they went to sea:
In spite of all their friends could say,
On a winter's morn, on a stormy day,
In a Sieve they went to...sieve, winter, morn, stormy, round, drowned, cried, aloud, button, fig, sea, far and 113 more...
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mandarine's Words
antepenultimate, metonymy, synecdoche, pop, kern, inherit, clique, scrumptious, macerate, murmur, kerning, veranda and 1068 more...
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Samme's Words
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Tweets
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chained_bear Song Ideas for My Next Album, by Brian Geary. Sep 3, 2008