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Xem thêm: vocal, strain, birdcall, call, birdsong, Sung, Sung dynasty, Song, Song dynasty
song noun
1 piece of music with words
ADJ. beautiful, good, great, lovely | catchy | mournful, sad | country, folk, pop/popular, traditional a Hungarian folk song | bawdy, children's, drinking, love, patriotic, protest, religious After a few drinks, they were all singing bawdy songs at the top of their voices. a protest song written in the sixties | theme, title the theme song from ‘The Godfather’ the title song from the Beatles' album ‘Help!’
VERB + SONG compose, write | do, perform, play, sing They performed another two songs as encores. Sing us a song, Susanna! | record
SONG + NOUN writer (also songwriter) a singer-songwriter | contest
PREP. in (a/the) ~ Important historical events were commemorated in song. | ~ about a song about love
2 act of singing
VERB + SONG break into, burst into He strummed a couple of chords on the guitar and they all burst into song.
PREP. in ~ He heard voices raised in song.
n.
a successful musical must have at least three good songs
the song of bullets was in the air
the song of the wind
the wheels sang their song as the train rocketed ahead
with a shout and a song they marched up to the gates
a bird will not learn its song unless it hears it at an early age
he bought it for a song