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 singspiel)

(music, uncountable) An early German form of opera consisting of spoken dialogue interspersed with song.

(music, countable) An opera in this style.