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Found 3 hits - Term: song, Database: *, Strategy: exact
[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
song \song\ so^ng; 115, n. as. song, sang, fr. singan to
   sing; akin to d. zang, g. sang, icel. s"ongr, goth. saggws.
   see sing.
   1. that which is sung or uttered with musical modulations of
      the voice, whether of a human being or of a bird, insect,
      etc. "that most ethereal of all sounds, the song of
      crickets." --hawthorne.
      1913 webster

   2. a lyrical poem adapted to vocal music; a ballad.
      1913 webster

   3. more generally, any poetical strain; a poem.
      1913 webster

            the bard that first adorned our native tongue
            tuned to his british lyre this ancient song.
                                                  --dryden.
      1913 webster

   4. poetical composition; poetry; verse.
      1913 webster

            this subject for heroic song.         --milton.
      1913 webster

   5. an object of derision; a laughingstock.
      1913 webster

            and now am i their song, yea, i am their byword.
                                                  --job xxx. 9.
      1913 webster

   6. a trifle; an insignificant sum of money; as, he bought it
      for a song. "the soldier's pay is a song." --silliman.
      1913 webster +pjc

   old song, a trifle; nothing of value. "i do not intend to
      be thus put off with an old song." --dr. h. more.

   song bird zool., any singing bird; one of the oscines.
      

   song sparrow zool., a very common north american sparrow
      melospiza fasciata, or melospiza melodia noted for
      the sweetness of its song in early spring. its breast is
      covered with dusky brown streaks which form a blotch in
      the center.

   song thrush zool., a common european thrush turdus
      musicus, noted for its melodius song; -- called also
      mavis, throstle, and thrasher.
      1913 webster

   syn: sonnet; ballad; canticle; carol; canzonet; ditty; hymn;
        descant; lay; strain; poesy; verse.
        1913 webster
see also:
sing old song song bird oscines song sparrow melospiza fasciata 
melospiza melodia song thrush turdus musicus mavis throstle 
thrasher 
[2] : WordNet (r) 2.0
song
     n 1: a short musical composition with words; "a successful
          musical must have at least three good songs"
     2: a distinctive or characteristic sound; "the song of bullets
        was in the air"; "the song of the wind"; "the wheels sang
        their song as the train rocketed ahead"
     3: the act of singing; "with a shout and a song they marched up
        to the gates" syn: strain
     4: the characteristic sound produced by a bird; "a bird will
        not learn its song unless it hears it at an early age"
        syn: birdcall, call, birdsong
     5: a very small sum; "he bought it for a song"
     6: the imperial dynasty of china from 960 to 1279; noted for
        art and literature and philosophy syn: sung, sung
        dynasty, song dynasty
see also:
strain birdcall call birdsong sung sung dynasty 
song dynasty 
[3] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
176 moby thesaurus words for "song":
   brautlied, christmas carol, english sonnet, horatian ode,
   italian sonnet, kunstlied, liebeslied, petrarchan sonnet,
   pindaric ode, sapphic ode, shakespearean sonnet, volkslied, ado,
   air, alba, anacreontic, anthem, aria, art song, aubade, balada,
   ballad, ballade, ballata, barcarole, bel canto, blues, blues song,
   boat song, bother, bravura, bridal hymn, brindisi, bucolic,
   calypso, canso, canticle, canto, cantus, canzone, canzonet,
   canzonetta, carol, cavatina, chanson, chant, chantey, cheaply,
   choral singing, clerihew, coloratura, commotion, croon, croon song,
   crooning, cry, descant, dirge, dithyramb, ditty, drinking song,
   eclogue, elegy, epic, epigram, epithalamium, epode, epopee,
   epopoeia, epos, evasion, flap, folk singing, folk song, for a song,
   fuss, georgic, ghazel, haiku, hum, humming, hymeneal, hymn, idyll,
   inexpensively, intonation, jingle, lay, lied, lilt, limerick, line,
   love song, love-lilt, lyric, lyricism, madrigal, matin, measure,
   melodia, melodic line, melody, minstrel song, minstrelsy, monody,
   musical thought, narrative poem, national anthem, note, number,
   nursery rhyme, ode, operatic singing, palinode, pastoral,
   pastoral elegy, pastorela, pastourelle, performance, piece, poem,
   poesy, poetry, prevarication, prothalamium, refrain, rhyme,
   rondeau, rondel, roundel, roundelay, satire, scat, scat singing,
   serena, serenade, serenata, sestina, singing, sloka, sol-fa,
   sol-fa exercise, solfeggio, solmization, solo, solo part, sonnet,
   sonnet sequence, soprano part, strain, tale, tanka, tenso, tenzone,
   the supreme fiction, theme song, threnody, to-do, tonic sol-fa,
   torch song, treble, triolet, troubadour poem, tune, verse,
   verselet, versicle, villanelle, virelay, vocal music, vocalization,
   war song, warbling, wedding song, yodel, yodeling





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Song Lyrics
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...Song Lyric Station (Country Song Lyrics) * SongFile (database of over ... Tradition Folk Song Database * Digital Tradition Folk Song Database ... ..
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OMACL: The Song of Roland
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English Folk Dance and Song Society Homepage
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