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Synonyms for unsung

Grammar : Adj
Spell : uhn-suhng
Phonetic Transcription : ʌnˈsʌŋ

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Définition of unsung

Origin :
  • early 15c., "not uttered in a song," from un- (1) "not" + past participle of sing. Cf. German ungesungen. Meaning "not celebrated" is recorded from 1660s.
  • adj uncelebrated
Example sentences :
  • Unsung, unwept, they have carried on, their motto Service and their goal Success.
  • Extract from : « Terry » by Charles Goff Thomson
  • “Unwept, unhonoured, and unsung,” they went to a nameless grave.
  • Extract from : « Spinifex and Sand » by David W Carnegie
  • Otherwise leave them “unhonoured and unsung,” and unpronounced.
  • Extract from : « The Rivers of Great Britain: Rivers of the East Coast » by Various
  • The man who wrote such a poem should not be unknelled, unhonored and unsung.
  • Extract from : « The Dead Men's Song » by Champion Ingraham Hitchcock
  • The man who wrote such a poem should not be unknelled, unhonored, and unsung.
  • Extract from : « The Dead Men's Song » by Champion Ingraham Hitchcock
  • So he departed down the river, won the honour, and was unannaled and unsung.
  • Extract from : « The Faith of Men » by Jack London
  • A symbol representing all the millions of unsung heroes and heroines who have died fighting for the human species.
  • Extract from : « Medal of Honor » by Dallas McCord Reynolds
  • That was a domestic event of entirely too much importance to be unsung by an uncle at once pious and poetical.
  • Extract from : « Benjamin Franklin; Self-Revealed, Volume I (of 2) » by Wiliam Cabell Bruce
  • Many a Milton walks on his silent way, and goes down at last, not singing and unsung.
  • Extract from : « Speeches, Addresses, and Occasional Sermons, Volume 2 (of 3) » by Theodore Parker
  • Not less is the genus librarian unwept, unhonored, and unsung.
  • Extract from : « Papers and proceedings of the thirty-fifth general meeting of the American Library Association, 1913 » by Various
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