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say it: sawng
song is a noun meaning "a short musical composition with words". It carries 6 recorded senses.
a short musical composition with words
“a successful musical must have at least three good songs”
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”
the act of singing
“with a shout and a song they marched up to the gates”
the characteristic sound produced by a bird
“a bird will not learn its song unless it hears it at an early age”
the imperial dynasty of China from 960 to 1279; noted for art and literature and philosophy
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for song come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.