song

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   the act of singing

   with a shout and a song they marched up to the gates

2. 2
   noun

   the characteristic sound produced by a bird

   a bird will not learn its song unless it hears it at an early age

3. 3
   noun

   a short musical composition with words

   a successful musical must have at least three good songs

4. 4
   noun

   a distinctive or characteristic sound

   the song of bullets was in the air

5. 5
   noun

   a very small sum

   They bought the house for a song.

6. 6
   noun

   A musical composition with lyrics for voice or voices, performed by singing.

   Thomas listened to his favorite song on the radio yesterday.

7. 7
   noun

   Poetical composition; poetry; verse.

   This subject for heroic song.

8. 8
   noun

   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.

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *sengʷʰ- Proto-Indo-European *séngʷʰ-e-ti Proto-Germanic *singwaną Proto-Germanic *sangwaz Proto-West Germanic *sangu Old English sang Middle English song English song From Middle English song, sang, from Old English sang, from Proto-West Germanic *sangu, from Proto-Germanic *sangwaz (“singing, song”), from Proto-Indo-European *sengʷʰ- (“to sing”). Cognate with Scots sang, song (“singing, song”), Saterland Frisian Song (“song”), West Frisian sang (“song”), Dutch zang (“song”), Low German sang (“song”), German Sang (“singing, song”), Swedish sång (“song”), Nor…