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world song

world song noun: a song from the genre of world music.

Noun

world song (plural world songs)

  1. A song from the genre of world music.
    • Later, during an evening concert, Lomax was discussing a group of former convicts who were chopping wood and hoeing in time to world songs.1965 August, Mississippi Phil Ochs, “The Newport Fuzz Festival”, in The Realist, number 61, retrieved 13 Nov 2022, page 11
    • However, more recent publications include world songs as a matter of course along with folk songs […]2003, C. Michael Hawn, Gather Into One: Praying and Singing Globally, →ISBN, page 214

Forms of world song

pluralworld songs

Questions about world song

What does world song mean?
World song means a song from the genre of world music.
What part of speech is world song?
World song is a noun.
What is the plural of world song?
The plural of world song is world songs.

Words near world song in the dictionary

  1. world religion
  2. world religions
  3. world riddle
  4. world riddles
  5. World Series
  6. world song
  7. world soul
  8. world souls
  9. world state
  10. world states
  11. world to come

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