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Grammar : Adj
Spell : sawng, song
Phonetic Transcription : sɔŋ, sɒŋ

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Définition of songlike

Origin :
  • Old English sang "voice, song, art of singing; metrical composition adapted for singing, psalm, poem," from Proto-Germanic *sangwaz (cf. Old Norse söngr, Norwegian song, Swedish sång, Old Saxon, Danish, Old Frisian, Old High German, German sang, Middle Dutch sanc, Dutch zang, Gothic saggws), from PIE *songwh-o- "singing, song," from *sengwh- "to sing, make an incantation" (see sing (v.)).
  • Phrase for a song "for a trifle, for little or nothing" is from "All's Well" III.ii.9 (the identical image, por du son, is in Old French. With a song in (one's) heart "feeling joy" is first attested 1930 in Lorenz Hart's lyric. Song and dance as a form of vaudeville act is attested from 1872; figurative sense of "rigmarole" is from 1895.
  • As in lyric : adj musical
  • As in lyrical : adj musical
  • As in poetic : adj with rhythm and beauty; related to poetic composition
  • As in poetical : adj poetic

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