songe

Noun

song (countable and uncountable, plural songs)

1. A musical composition with lyrics for voice or voices, performed by singing.
   • Thomas listened to his favorite song on the radio yesterday.
2. (broadly, colloquial) Any musical composition.
3. Poetical composition; poetry; verse.
   • This subject for heroic song.1667, John Milton, “Book VIII”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC...
4. The act or art of singing.
   • How often the enthusiast has dwelt upon the birds bursting into song, the buds bursting into flower, all nature bursting into life!—as though a state of things in which everything around us is bursting is at all pleasant.1884, Spencer Leigh Hughes, “The Weather. A Short Study on a Great Subject.”, in Golden Hours: A Monthly Magazine for Family and General Reading, volume XVII, London: Lile and Fawcett, […], page 28...
5. A melodious sound made by a bird, insect, whale or other animal.
   • I love hearing the song of canary birds.
6. The distinctive sound that a male bird utters to attract a mate or to protect his territory; contrasts with call; also, similar vocalisations made by female birds.

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