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sang

/ˈsæŋ//ˈseɪ̯ŋ/

sang is the simple past of sing.

sang is the alternative form of sheng.

Meaning of sing

Verb

sing (third-person singular simple present sings, present participle singing, simple past sang or sung, past participle sung or (archaic) sungen)

  1. (intransitive) To produce musical or harmonious sounds with one’s voice.
    • "I really want to sing in the school choir," said Vera.
  2. (intransitive) To perform a vocal part in a musical composition, regardless of technique.
  3. (transitive) To express audibly by means of a harmonious vocalization.
    • sing a lullaby
  4. (transitive) To soothe with singing.
    • to sing somebody to sleep
  5. (ambitransitive) To produce a 'song', for the purposes of defending a breeding territory or to attract a mate.
  6. (ambitransitive, literary) To produce any type of melodious vocalisation.
    • ⁠I do but sing because I must,
      And pipe but as the linnets sing:
      And unto one her note is gay,
      ⁠For now her little ones have ranged;
      ⁠And unto one her note is changed,
      Because her brood is stol’n away.1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], “Canto XXI”, in In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, page 36

See all 19 meanings of sing

Meaning of sheng

Noun

sheng (plural shengs)

  1. A Chinese wind instrument, a free-reed mouth organ consisting of 13 or more bamboo pipes of various lengths, which are fixed at their bases in a wind chest made from a dried gourd (or, more recently, wood or chrome-plated brass).
    • The appearance of a sheng in Paris at the end of the eighteenth century inspired the development of free reed instruments in Western Europe, including the harmonica, accordion, and symphonium (see next page).2015, J. Kenneth Moore, Jayson Kerr Dobney, E Bradley Strachen-Scherer, Musical Instruments: Highlights of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, →ISBN, page 120

See all 2 meanings of sheng

Noun

sang (uncountable)

  1. (Appalachia, slang) ginseng

Verb

sang (third-person singular simple present sangs, present participle sanging, simple past and past participle sanged)

  1. (Appalachia, slang) to gather wild ginseng

Proper noun capitalized: Sang

Sang (plural Sangs)

  1. A surname from Chinese.
  2. A surname from Korean.
  3. A surname from Khmer.

Forms of sang

Verb
third-person singular presentsangs
present participlesanging
past participlesanged
pastsanged
Proper noun
pluralSangs

Origin of sang

Abbreviation of ginseng

As a surname, from: *Khmer សង (sɑɑng) *Korean 상 (sang) *Chinese 桑 (sāng)

Phrases with sang

7 more phrasesFewer phrases

Words that rhyme with sang

38 more rhymesFewer rhymes

Questions about sang

What does sang mean?
Sang means ginseng.
What is sang the simple past of?
Sang is the simple past of sing.
What part of speech is sang?
Sang can be a noun, a verb or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce sang?
Sang is pronounced /ˈsæŋ/.

Words near sang in the dictionary

  1. sanforization
  2. sanforize
  3. sanforized
  4. sanforizes
  5. sanforizing
  6. sang
  7. sang a different tune
  8. sang along
  9. Sang culture
  10. sang de boeuf
  11. sang for one's supper

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: sang (page history and authors); Sang (page history and authors); sing (page history and authors); sheng (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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