SUNG • FREE TRANSLATOR.ORG • Definition of Sung

Add this Dictionary
to your website!
See more options...

/səŋ/ Listen

verb

Sing v. t. (past sang; past part. sung; pres. part. singing)

1.

To utter with musical inflections or modulations of voice. "And they sing the song of Moses, the servant of God, and the song of the Lamb." "And in the darkness sing your carol of high praise."

2.

To celebrate in song; to give praises to in verse; to relate or rehearse in numbers, verse, or poetry. "Arms and the man I sing." "The last, the happiest British king, Whom thou shalt paint or I shall sing."

3.

To influence by singing; to lull by singing; as, to sing a child to sleep.

4.

To accompany, or attend on, with singing. "I heard them singing home the bride."

Sing v. i. (past sang; past part. sung; pres. part. singing)

1.

To utter sounds with musical inflections or melodious modulations of voice, as fancy may dictate, or according to the notes of a song or tune, or of a given part (as alto, tenor, etc.) in a chorus or concerted piece. "The noise of them that sing do I hear."

2.

To utter sweet melodious sounds, as birds do. "On every bough the briddes heard I sing." "Singing birds, in silver cages hung."

3.

To make a small, shrill sound; as, the air sings in passing through a crevice. "O'er his head the flying spear Sang innocent, and spent its force in air."

4.

To tell or relate something in numbers or verse; to celebrate something in poetry. "Bid her... sing Of human hope by cross event destroyed."

5.

To cry out; to complain. (Obs.) "They should sing if thet they were bent."

Sung v. Imp. & p. p. of Sing.

See images of 'Sung'

Etymology of 'Sung'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

Share |

"Sung" Quotes from Famous Books

... the realization of that sublime vision which is sung on Sundays in the smallest village-church: Gloria in excelsis Deo, et in terra pax hominibus bonae voluntatis! If war affected humanity alone, perhaps the future would have peace in store for us, seeing that generous minds are working ...

— Bramble-bees and Others • J. Henri Fabre

... dearest father!—Yet he grew Profoundly anxious, as he knew More of the dangers lurking round; But I was on enchanted ground! Delighted with my minstrel art, I had a thousand lays by heart; And while my yet unpractis'd tongue Descanted on the strains I sung, Still seeking treasure, like a bee, I laugh'd and ...

— The Lay of Marie • Matilda Betham

... o' heaven. And Huldy she noticed, that ef there was a hymn run in her head while she was 'round a workin' the minister was sure to give it out next Sunday. You see, Huldy was jist like a bee: she always sung when she was workin', and you could hear her trillin', now down in the corn-patch, while she was pickin' the corn; and now in the buttery, while she was workin' the butter; and now she'd go singin' down cellar, and then ...

— Oldtown Fireside Stories • Harriet Beecher Stowe

... Korea was split with the northern half coming under Soviet-sponsored Communist domination. After failing in the Korean War (1950-53) to conquer the US-backed republic in the southern portion by force, North Korea, under its founder President KIM Il Sung, adopted a policy of ostensible diplomatic and economic "self-reliance" as a check against excessive Soviet or Communist Chinese influence. It molded political, economic, and military policies around the core ideological objective of ...

— The 2005 CIA World Factbook • United States. Central Intelligence Agency

... devotions through great part of the night. Very early on the following morning she called us all to get up, and put on our moccasins, and be ready to move. She then called Wa-me-gon-a-biew to her, and said to him, in rather a low voice, 'My son, last night I sung and prayed to the Great Spirit, and when I slept, there came to me one like a man, and said to me, "Net-no-kwa, to-morrow you shall eat a bear. There is, at a distance from the path you are to travel to-morrow, and in such a direction" (which she described ...

— The True Story Book • Andrew Lang

Copyright © 2024 Free Translator.org