Noun

(en noun)

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

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*{{quote-book, 1852, Mrs M.A. Thompson, chapter=The Tutor's Daughter, Graham's American Monthly Magazine of Literature, Art, and Fashion, page= 266

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

*, chapter=5

, title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=He was thinking; but the glory of the song , the swell from the great organ, the clustered lights,

(label) Any musical composition.

Poetical composition; poetry; verse.

*(John Milton) (1608-1674)

*:This subject for heroic song .

*(John Dryden) (1631-1700)

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

The act or art of singing.

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

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*(Nathaniel Hawthorne) (1804-1864)

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

Something that cost only a little; chiefly in for a song.

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*(Benjamin Silliman) (1779–1864)

*:The soldier's pay is a song .

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*:Thus the red damask curtains which now shut out the fog-laden, drizzling atmosphere of the Marylebone Road, had cost a mere song , 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;.

An object of derision; a laughing stock.

*(Bible), (w) xxx. 9

*:And now am I their song , yea, I am their byword.

Noun

(wikipedia album) (en-noun)

A book specially designed to keep photographs, stamps, or autographs.

* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-14, author=(Jonathan Freedland)

, volume=189, issue=1, page=18, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= Obama's once hip brand is now tainted , passage=Now we are liberal with our innermost secrets, spraying them into the public ether with a generosity our forebears could not have imagined. Where we once sent love letters in a sealed envelope, or stuck photographs of our children in a family album , now such private material is despatched to servers and clouds operated by people we don't know and will never meet.}}

A jacket for a phonograph record; an album cover.

A phonograph record.

* 1965 , (American Philological Association), (Press of (Case Western Reserve University)), volume 96, page 364

This mixture was to be effected either by drawing the juries partly from the senate (of about 300 members), partly from an album'' of 300 ''equites'' (Plut. ''CG'' 5.2, ''Comp.'' 2.1), or by adlecting 600 ''equites'' into the senate and drawing the juries from this new senatorial order (Liv. ''Per. 60).

A group of audio recordings, on any medium, intended for distribution as a group.

* {{quote-news, year=2012, date=August 21, author=Jason Heller, work=The Onion AV Club

, title= The Darkness: Hot Cakes (Music Review) , passage=When the album succeeds, such as on the swaggering, Queen-esque “Nothing’s Gonna Stop Us,” it does so on The Darkness’ own terms—that is, as a random ’80s-cliché generator. But with so many tired, lazy callbacks to its own threadbare catalog (including “Love Is Not The Answer,” a watery echo of the epic “I Believe In A Thing Called Love” from 2003’s Permission To Land''), ''Hot Cakes marks the point where The Darkness has stopped cannibalizing the golden age of stadium rock and simply started cannibalizing itself. And, despite Hawkins’ inveterate crotch-grabbing, there was never that much meat there to begin with. }}