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songwrite

songwrite verb: to compose songs.

Verb

songwrite (third-person singular simple present songwrites, present participle songwriting, simple past songwrote, past participle songwritten)

  1. (intransitive) To compose songs.
    • “I can’t not songwrite, be singing, performing. I have friends who have been in it and left it on purpose, but I think I’ll never know unless I try.”2020 November 2, Clementine Daniel, “Students who Songwrite”, in The Urban Legend
    • Want to songwrite but I don’t know where to start.2021 April 26, u/MccDann, Reddit

Forms of songwrite

third-person singular presentsongwrites
present participlesongwriting
pastsongwrote
past participlesongwritten

Origin of songwrite

Back-formation from songwriter.

Questions about songwrite

What does songwrite mean?
Songwrite means to compose songs.
What part of speech is songwrite?
Songwrite is a verb.
What is the past tense of songwrite?
The past tense of songwrite is songwrote.

Words near songwrite in the dictionary

  1. songword
  2. songwords
  3. songworthy
  4. songwright
  5. songwrights
  6. songwrite
  7. songwriter
  8. songwriterly
  9. songwriters
  10. songwrites
  11. songwriting

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Adapted from Wiktionary: songwrite (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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