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Song

noun

A short musical composition with words. Synonym: vocal.

A distinctive or characteristic sound. "The song of the wind" , "The wheels sang their song as the train rocketed ahead"

The act of singing. Synonym: strain.

The characteristic sound produced by a bird. Synonyms: birdcall, birdsong, call.

A very small sum.

The imperial dynasty of China from 960 to 1279; noted for art and literature and philosophy. Synonyms: Song dynasty, Sung, Sung dynasty.

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"Song" Quotes from Famous Books

... finest clothing. He took his stand on the forward deck, while the robber sailors stood in a half circle before him, anxious to listen to his song. ...

— Fifty Famous People • James Baldwin

... April 1792, the day before the departure of a detachment of volunteers, Dietrich, the Mayor of Strasburg, gave a banquet to their officers, and during dinner requested Rouget, then an officer in the engineers, to compose a war-song for them. Although it was late before Rouget retired to his room, he had both the music and the words ready before going to bed. In the morning he handed the paper to his host, saying: "Tenez, voil ce que vous m'avez demand, mais j'ai peur que cela ne ...

— The South of France--East Half • Charles Bertram Black

... Alas sweet Lady: what imports this Song? Ophe. Say you? Nay pray you marke. He is dead and gone Lady, he is dead and gone, At his head a grasse-greene Turfe, at his ...

— The First Folio [35 Plays] • William Shakespeare

... through the cigar-smoke of the studio, a dozen voices greeted Selden. A song was pending as he entered, and he dropped into a seat near his hostess, his eyes roaming in search of Miss Bart. But she was not there, and the discovery gave him a pang out of all proportion to its seriousness; ...

— House of Mirth • Edith Wharton

... from his colonial career, he had been to Greece in a brigantine with four brass carronades; he had travelled Europe in a chaise and four, drawing bridle at the palace-doors of German princes; queens of song and dance had followed him like sheep and paid his tailor's bills. And to behold him now, seeking small loans with plaintive condescension, sponging for breakfast on an art-student of nineteen, a fallen ...

— Tales and Fantasies • Robert Louis Stevenson

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