song
Definitions
- A surname from Khmer.
- A district of Phrae Province, Thailand.
- A musical composition with lyrics for voice or voices, performed by singing.
- A former dynasty in China, reigning from the end of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms to the beginning of the Yuan.
- A river in Papua New Guinea.
- A local government area of Adamawa State, Nigeria.
- Any musical composition.
- A former empire in China, occupying the eastern half of modern China.
- Poetical composition; poetry; verse.
- The era of Chinese history during which the dynasty reigned.
- The act or art of singing.
- A surname from Chinese.
- A melodious sound made by a bird, insect, whale or other animal.
- A river in China; any of various minor rivers in China.
- The distinctive sound that a male bird utters to attract a mate or to protect his territory; contrasts with call; also, similar vocalisations made by female birds.
- A low price, especially one under the expected value; chiefly in for a song.
- An object of derision; a laughing stock.
Equivalents
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አማርኛመዝሙር
Беларускаяпесня
বাংলাগান
Catalàcançó
Cymraegcan
Eestilaul
Euskaraabesti
Hausawaƙa
ʻŌlelo Hawaiʻimele
Հայերեներգ
Italianocanzone
ქართულისიმღერა
Кыргызчаыр
LëtzebuergeschLidd
Македонскипесна
Монголдуу
मराठीगाणे
Maltigħanja
नेपालीगीत
ଓଡ଼ିଆଗୀତ
ਪੰਜਾਬੀگاݨا
پښتوسرود
سنڌيگيت
Slovenčinapieseň
Slovenščinapesem
Soomaalihees
Shqipkëngë
Sesothopina
Kiswahiliwimbo
తెలుగుపాట
ትግርኛመዝሙር
Türkmençeaýdym
O'zbekchaqoʻshiq
isiXhosaingoma
Yorùbáorín
isiZuluiculo
Examples
“Thomas listened to his favorite song on the radio yesterday.”
“The Harpe. […] A harper with his wreſt maye tune⟳ the harpe wrong / Mys tunying of an Inſtrument ſhal hurt⟳ a true ſonge”
“In the lightness of my heart I sang catches of songs as my horse gayly bore me along the well-remembered road.”
“He was thinking; but the glory of the song, 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.”
“This subject for heroic song.”
“The bard that first adorned our native tongue / Tuned to his British lyre this ancient song.”
“How often the enthusiast has dwelt upon the birds bursting into song, 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.”
“Or take⟳ one that is less of an explanation and more of a song , 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.[…]”
“I love⟳ hearing the song of canary birds.”
“That most ethereal of all sounds, the song of crickets.”
“The robin alone by his soft morning song broke the silence and the solitude which reigned in the forest.”
“He bought that car for a song.”
“his [a common soldier's] pay⟳ is a song.”
“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;[…].”
“And now am I their song, yea, I am their byword.”
“Up until the Song dynasty (960 to 1279 A.D.), it was the case that, like⟳ in the West, each person would get⟳ their own⟳ meal.”
“A 1,000-year-old bowl from China's Song Dynasty sold at auction for $37.7 million on Tuesday, breaking the record⟳ for Chinese porcelain, auction house Sotheby's said. The small piece -- which dates from 960-1127 -- broke the previous record⟳ of $36.05 million set⟳ in 2014 for a Ming Dynasty wine cup which was sold to a Shanghai tycoon.”
“The brightest supernova in your Milky Way galaxy to be visible from Earth was seen and recorded by the Chinese during the Song Dynasty on the 4th of July in A.D. 1054.”
CEFR level
A2
Elementary
This word is part of the CEFR A2 vocabulary — elementary level.
This word is part of the CEFR A2 vocabulary — elementary level.
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