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# lullaby

«lullaby» in Mova's school dictionary: **a soft, gentle song sung to help a baby or small child…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (a lullaby, lullabies); verb (lullaby — rare)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A lullaby is a soft, gentle song sung to help a baby or small child fall asleep. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lullaby/#m1)

2) A lullaby is any soft, calming sound: the lullaby of the waves. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lullaby/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In music lessons lullabies have slow, rocking rhythms; famous ones are «Hush, Little Baby», «Rock-a-bye Baby», «Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star» and Brahms's Lullaby. Every culture has its own lullabies. In stories a lullaby shows comfort and love. Phrases: «sing a lullaby», «hum a lullaby».

### examples

- Mum sang a lullaby until the baby fell asleep. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lullaby/#x1)
- «Rock-a-bye Baby» is an old English lullaby. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lullaby/#x2)
- The waves were a lullaby that sent me to sleep. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lullaby/#x3)
- Gran hums a Ukrainian lullaby. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lullaby/#x4)
- We learned a lullaby from Ghana in music. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lullaby/#x5)
- Brahms wrote a famous lullaby for piano. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lullaby/#x6)
- Leaning on one hand and softly whispering a little lullaby, she threw a light cover over her baby. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lullaby/#x7)

### note

Plural «lullabies» (y → ies). Said «LULL-uh-by». From «lull» (to calm). Countable.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «lullaby» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lullaby/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.