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sang soprano

sang soprano is the simple past of sing soprano.

Meaning of sing soprano

Verb

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

  1. (intransitive, literally) To perform vocal music in a higher pitch than alto.
  2. (euphemistic, idiomatic, intransitive) To suffer castration or an injury to the testicles.
    • A couple of women lawyers . . . drew a sharp, gleaming knife and applied it mentally to a target just south of the groom's waistline. If he doesn't like it, let the bastard go sing soprano to the A.C.L.U. Such was the ladies' thought.1997 December 8, Lance Morrow, “Goodbye, Miss Havisham”, in Time

Questions about sang soprano

What is sang soprano the simple past of?
Sang soprano is the simple past of sing soprano.

Words near sang soprano in the dictionary

  1. sang like a bird
  2. sang like a canary
  3. sang off the same hymn sheet
  4. sang out
  5. sang small
  6. sang soprano
  7. sang the praises of
  8. sang the same tune
  9. sang up
  10. sang wenhua
  11. Sang-chu

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