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# songwriter

«songwriter» in Mova's school dictionary: **a person who writes songs: the words, the tune, or both** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a songwriter, songwriters)

### meaning for a pupil

A songwriter is a person who writes songs: the words, the tune, or both. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/songwriter/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

Used in music lessons and everyday talk about pop stars and bands; related words: lyrics (the words), melody (the tune), singer-songwriter (someone who writes and sings their own songs).

### examples

- Taylor Swift is a famous singer-songwriter. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/songwriter/#x1)
- The songwriter wrote the tune on her guitar. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/songwriter/#x2)
- Our class became songwriters for the school concert. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/songwriter/#x3)
- Many songs are written by teams of songwriters. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/songwriter/#x4)
- A songwriter needs ideas, rhyme and rhythm. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/songwriter/#x5)
- He dreams of being a songwriter one day. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/songwriter/#x6)

### note

Countable. One word. A songwriter is not always the singer: many singers perform songs that other people wrote.

### In the corpora

- [Some songwriters start with words, some with a tune or chords, some with a beat; there is no single correct way.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/7-how-a-song-is-made-writing-recording-producing/5/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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