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metasong

metasong noun: a song about a song.

Noun

metasong (plural metasongs)

  1. A song about a song.
    • The poem as lyric becomes a type of metasong. It is a song about universal rhythm.1992, Robert Lecker, Jack David, Ellen Quigley, editors, Canadian Writers and Their Work: Poetry series, volume 8, ECW Press, page 83
    • Parsons takes the gift and sings Melissa a responsive song, wherein her “unmov’d” song turns through its “unmov’d” hearer to a kind of metasong about the freedom that art offers.1995, Elaine Scarry, Fins-de-siècle: English Poetry in 1590, 1690, 1790, 1890, 1990, Johns Hopkins University Press, page 118

Forms of metasong

pluralmetasongs

Questions about metasong

What does metasong mean?
Metasong means a song about a song.
What part of speech is metasong?
Metasong is a noun.
What is the plural of metasong?
The plural of metasong is metasongs.

Words near metasong in the dictionary

  1. metasomatosis
  2. metasome
  3. metasomes
  4. metasone
  5. metasones
  6. metasong
  7. metasongs
  8. metaspace
  9. metaspaces
  10. metaspatial
  11. metaspatiality

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