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sung

/sʌŋ/

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Midlands/sʊŋ/

sung is the past participle of sing.

sung is the simple past of sing.

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

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Proper noun (1) capitalized: Sung

Sung (plural Sungs)

  1. A surname from Mandarin.

Proper noun (2) capitalized: Sung

Sung (uncountable)

  1. (alternative) Alternative form of Song (Chinese dynasty)
    • At present the metropolitan area of Kuang-chou City alone comprises some 1,500,000 people or twice that of the Sung period for all of the two provinces.1954, Herold J. Wiens, Han Chinese Expansion in South China, Shoe String Press, published 1967, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 143
    • Fish were produced in Hu-chou for sale at the Southern Sung capital.1970 [1968], Shiba Yoshinobu, translated by Mark Elvin, Commerce and Society in Sung China, published 1992, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 102

Forms of sung

pluralSungs
alternative formSong
alternative formSoong

Origin of sung

From Chinese 宋 (Sòng) Wade–Giles romanization: Sung⁴.

Words formed from sung

Phrases with sung

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Words that rhyme with sung

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Questions about sung

What does sung mean?
Sung means a surname from Mandarin.
What is sung the past participle of?
Sung is the past participle of sing.
What part of speech is sung?
Sung is a proper noun.
How do you pronounce sung?
Sung is pronounced /sʌŋ/ (UK).

Words near sung in the dictionary

  1. sunflowery
  2. sunfringed
  3. sunfrock
  4. sunfrocks
  5. sunfruit
  6. sung
  7. sung a different tune
  8. sung along
  9. sung for one's supper
  10. sung from the same hymnbook
  11. sung Kumbaya

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