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singing Kumbaya

singing Kumbaya is the present participle and gerund of sing Kumbaya.

Meaning of sing Kumbaya

Verb

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

  1. (derogatory, humorous, usually) To seek peace and ignore disagreements.
    • "Without singing 'Kumbaya,' what bad things can I say about him? He has some bad hair days," she chuckles.1999, Brill's Content
  2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see sing, kumbaya.

Questions about singing Kumbaya

What is singing Kumbaya the present participle and gerund of?
Singing Kumbaya is the present participle and gerund of sing Kumbaya.

Words near singing Kumbaya in the dictionary

  1. singing girls
  2. singing ground
  3. singing grounds
  4. singing hinnies
  5. singing hinny
  6. singing Kumbaya
  7. singing like a bird
  8. singing like a canary
  9. singing off the same hymn sheet
  10. singing out
  11. singing sand

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Adapted from Wiktionary: singing Kumbaya (page history and authors); sing Kumbaya (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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