Song vs Ditty - What's the difference?
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A musical composition with lyrics for voice or voices, performed by singing.
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, title= (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.
A short verse or tune.
* Milton
* Sandys
A saying or utterance, especially one that is short and frequently repeated.
* Spenser
To sing; to warble a little tune.
* Herbert
As nouns the difference between song and ditty
is that song is a musical composition with lyrics for voice or voices, performed by singing while ditty is a short verse or tune.As a proper noun Song
is a former dynasty in China, reigning from the end of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms to the beginning of the Yuan.As a verb ditty is
to sing; to warble a little tune.song
English
(wikipedia song)Noun
(en noun)266
The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=He was thinking; but the glory of the song , the swell from the great organ, the clustered lights,
Derived terms
* birdsong * for a song * old song * on song * singsong * siren song * Song of Solomon * Song of Songs * songsheet * song sparrow * song thrush * songwise * songwriter * swan songSee also
* canticle * go for a songAnagrams
* * * ----ditty
English
Noun
(ditties)- The Acme mattress ditty has been stuck in my head all day.
- Religious, martial, or civil ditties.
- And to the warbling lute soft ditties sing.
- O, too high ditty for my simple rhyme.
Verb
- Beasts fain would sing; birds ditty to their notes.