Song Definition

sông, sŏng

songs

noun

songs

The act or art of singing.

To break into song.

Webster's New World

A relatively short metrical composition for, or suitable for, singing, as a ballad or simple lyric.

Webster's New World

A distinctive or characteristic sound made by an animal, such as a bird or an insect.

American Heritage

A piece of music sung or composed for singing.

Webster's New World

Poetry; verse.

Webster's New World

Synonyms:

abbreviation

Song of Solomon.

Webster's New World

pronoun

A former dynasty in China, reigning from the end of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms to the beginning of the Yuan.

Wiktionary

A former empire in China, occupying the eastern half of modern China.

Wiktionary

The era of Chinese history during which the dynasty reigned.

Wiktionary

Wiktionary

idiom

for a song

American Heritage

for a song

Webster's New World

Other Word Forms of Song

Singular:

song

Plural:

songs

From Middle English song, sang, from Old English song, sang (“noise, song, singing, chanting; poetry; a poem to be sung or recited, psalm, lay"), from Proto-Germanic *sangwaz (“singing, song"), from Proto-Indo-European *sengÊ·h- (“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 sÃ¥ng (“song"), Norwegian song (“song"), Icelandic söngur (“song"), Ancient Greek ὁμφή (omphḗ, “voice, oracle"). More at sing.

From Wiktionary
Mandarin Sòng named by its founder Zhao Kuangyin after Sòng the medieval prefecture where the title of emperor was conferred upon him and where his army was located at the time (roughly the region around modern Shangqiu in Henan province) from Middle Chinese səwŋ`

From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
Middle English from Old English sang sengwh- in Indo-European roots

From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition