song
- Top 1000
Sense 1
- noun
- A1
A short piece of music with words that a person sings.
We all sang a birthday song before she blew out the candles.
That song has been stuck in my head since yesterday morning.
He wrote this song about the summer he spent abroad.
The choir ended the evening with a slow song in three parts.
Common collocations: sing a song · write a song · a love song · a pop song · play a song · song lyrics
Sense 2 · less common
- noun
- B2
The musical sounds that a bird, or an animal such as a whale, makes again and again.
At dawn the whole garden fills with the song of small birds.
Experts can tell many birds apart by their song alone.
The song of a whale can travel for many kilometres underwater.
Common collocations: birdsong · whale song · the song of a blackbird · burst into song