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# song

«song» in Mova's school dictionary: **a short piece of music with words that you sing** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a song, songs)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A song is a short piece of music with words that you sing. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/song/#m1)

2) Song is the act or art of singing («burst into song»). [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/song/#m2)

3) A bird's song is the musical sounds it makes. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/song/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In music lessons pupils learn songs, verses and choruses, rhythm and rhyme; nursery rhymes and hymns are kinds of song. In science, birdsong helps birds attract mates and defend their area. Phrases: «sing a song», «birdsong», «burst into song», «for a song» (very cheaply), «song and dance» (a big fuss).

### examples

- We sang a song in assembly. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/song/#x1)
- What is your favourite song? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/song/#x2)
- The song has three verses and a chorus. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/song/#x3)
- I heard the song of a blackbird this morning. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/song/#x4)
- The whole family burst into song in the car. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/song/#x5)
- She wrote a song about her dog. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/song/#x6)
- Dad bought the old bike for a song. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/song/#x7)
- Don't make a song and dance about it. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/song/#x8)
- What song could the Ranunculus sing? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/song/#x9)

### note

Usually countable («a song»); uncountable in «birdsong» and «in song». Verb: «sing, sang, sung». «For a song» means very cheaply, not with music.

### In the corpora

- [One mimed song on a TV show, where many performers mime, does not prove a singer cannot sing.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/48-famous-people-are-people/10/)
- [You do not have to feel sad about a famous person you never knew; the people laying flowers knew their songs or films.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/51-scary-news-wars-disasters-and-how-to-talk-about-them/19/)
- [A bad picture fades faster if you fill your head with something else, like a favourite place, a game or a song.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/60-next-time-switch-off-tell-and-parental-controls/22/)
- [Music apps learn from your listening habits and build playlists of songs like the ones you already play.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/18-cars-doctors-translators/4/)
- [Some apps identify birds from their songs by matching sounds to recordings they learned from; they can guess the wrong bird.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/19-ai-in-one-ordinary-day/12/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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