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aubade

Syllables: au·bade/əʊˈbɑːd/US/oʊˈbɑd/

aubade noun: a poem or song evoking or greeting the dawn or early morning.

Noun

aubade (plural aubades)

  1. A poem or song evoking or greeting the dawn or early morning.
    • And there he lingered till the crowing cock, / The Alectryon of the farmyard and the flock, / Sang his aubade with lusty voice and clear, / To tell the sleeping world that dawn was near.1873 August, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, “[I. Tales of a Wayside Inn.] The Student’s Tale. Emma and Eginhard.”, in Aftermath, Boston, Mass.: James R[ipley] Osgood and Company, late Ticknor & Fields...
    • Alladad Khan woke to the far crying of kampong cocks in the dark. That noise had been the farmyard aubade in the Punjab in his dream.1956, Anthony Burgess, chapter 11, in Time for a Tiger (The Malayan Trilogy), London: William Heinemann, published 1968, →ISBN, page 155
    1. (specifically) A morning love song, or a song of lovers parting in the morning.
  2. A concert held at dawn or in the morning, especially outdoors.

aubade meaning in Tamil, Bengali and Indonesian

aubade in Tamil

பள்ளியெழுச்சிப் பாடல், வைகறைப்பாடல்

aubade in Bengali

ভোরের সংগীত, কবিতা

aubade in Indonesian

poem or song evoking or greeting the dawn or early morning
aubadê
morning love song; song of lovers parting in the morning
aubadê
concert held at dawn or in the morning, especially outdoors
aubadê

Forms of aubade

pluralaubades

Origin of aubade

PIE word *albʰós Borrowed from French aubade, from Old French albade, from Old Spanish albada (“musical or poetic composition to be performed in the morning”), from alba (“dawn”), from Vulgar Latin *alba (“dawn; sunrise”), from Latin albus (“bright, clear; white”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *albʰós (“white”).

Words that rhyme with aubade

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Questions about aubade

What does aubade mean?
Aubade means a poem or song evoking or greeting the dawn or early morning.
What is aubade in Tamil?
Aubade in Tamil is பள்ளியெழுச்சிப் பாடல், வைகறைப்பாடல். See Aubade meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is aubade?
Aubade is a noun.
How do you pronounce aubade?
Aubade is pronounced /əʊˈbɑːd/ (UK).
What is the plural of aubade?
The plural of aubade is aubades.

Words near aubade in the dictionary

  1. Au Train
  2. Au.D.
  3. aua
  4. AUASS
  5. AUB
  6. aubade
  7. aubades
  8. aubaine
  9. Aubange
  10. aube
  11. auberge

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: aubade (page history and authors); aubade (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); aubade (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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