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song | American Dictionary

song
noun[ C/U ]
us/sɔŋ/
a usually short piece of music with words that are sung:
[ C ]We bought a CD of Cole Porter songs.
Song is also the act of singing, or singing when considered generally:
[ U ]He was so happy he wanted to burst into song (= start singing).
The song of a bird is the musical sound it makes.

Examples of song

song
He includes in this category: advertisements, songs, drama troops, comedy storytellers (rakugo), and comedy duos (manzai).
They sing the old songs, worn smooth as burnished coins.
The drums are the most frequently mentioned instrument in jazz songs, and this emphasises the centrality of 'noise' in descriptions of jazz.
A deluge of implications is produced when mass-marketed songs and girls' games borrow (often word-for-word) from each other.
All the songs are gathered into a songbook that is updated from time to time.
Writers look at festivals, songs, language use, drama and body arts, all of which reflect, comment on or represent warfare in imaginative ways.
The children touched the guitar and interacted with the music therapist in the familiar songs they wanted to hear.
When all this failed, these soldiers retaliated through satirical songs.
Usually three main genres are distinguished: the so-called cantigas d'amor ("love songs"), cantigas d'amigo ("malefriend songs"), and cantigas d'escárnio e maldizer ("mocking and slanderous songs").
However, most love songs question the idea of male independence.
In it, twelve dancers, dressed as twelve princes, danced in imitation of the deities, accompanied by songs in their praise.
Lighting was used with precision to create carefully timed dramatic moments in particular songs.
We learn from both these songs how the two female artists have colluded with modern technology in production techniques to forge new cyber-identities for themselves.
Typically, these are strophic songs with three, four, five or more stanzas repeated to the same accompaniment.
She was musically literate and took down a number of songs from her grandmother and others.
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Collocations withsong

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acoustic song
Nausea is chiefly an acousticsong with elements of funk and heavy use of various percussion.
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