song of songs

Questions about song of songs

What does song of songs mean?

song of songs means "an Old Testament book consisting of a collection of love poems traditionally attributed to Solomon but actually written much later".

What is another word for song of songs?

Close synonyms include Song of Solomon, Canticle of Canticles, Canticles. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is song of songs a common word?

song of songs is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.