as in lullaby
a vocal or instrumental performance that is given outdoors at night for a lover
wooed his lady with a serenade
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Recent Examples of serenade
Colin Cerniglia,
Charlotte Observer,
22 Mar. 2026
The serenade paid tribute to Colbert’s work on The Late Show, which will come to an end on May 21.
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Emily Zemler,
Rolling Stone,
6 Mar. 2026
Glenn Garner,
Deadline,
9 Apr. 2026
The farewell to Late Night host Stephen Colbert was in full swing Thursday, as the host of The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon dropped by to serenade his friend and fellow talk-show personality.
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Raechal Shewfelt,
Entertainment Weekly,
6 Mar. 2026
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Noun
Smith, who turned 55 this past Thursday and received a surprise mariachi serenade from his staff midweek, gave his man-of-the-match nod not to a goal scorer, but to captain Ashley Westwood.
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Colin Cerniglia,
Charlotte Observer,
22 Mar. 2026
The serenade paid tribute to Colbert’s work on The Late Show, which will come to an end on May 21.
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Emily Zemler,
Rolling Stone,
6 Mar. 2026
Verb
As one of many grand gestures of his love, Hal reunites with his a cappella group, The Gentlemen Callers, to serenade Lois with Bruno Mars’ ‘Locked Out of Heaven’ in the aisles of the Lucky Aide.
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Glenn Garner,
Deadline,
9 Apr. 2026
The farewell to Late Night host Stephen Colbert was in full swing Thursday, as the host of The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon dropped by to serenade his friend and fellow talk-show personality.
—
Raechal Shewfelt,
Entertainment Weekly,
6 Mar. 2026
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Noun
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Later, piano slices through the fog with a supernatural three-note lullaby that springs just off the beat, racing forward through the song’s misty backdrop.
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Check out this 1997 live TV version of Paranoid Android, which veers from lullaby to apocalypse within the space of a few minutes.
Verb
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The minute-long clip, shared on June 10, shows Langley crooning the late '90s ballad while accompanying herself on piano.
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The camera pans to Cody crooning while strumming his guitar throughout the video.
Noun
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In the opening game of the World Cup, the infamous chant was pleasingly absent from the Azteca.
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At that, Paul and four of his friends launched into a singing chant.
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Her distinctive voice has been Widowspeak’s emblem since the band first emerged, warbled like Mazzy Star’s Hope Sandoval over CB radio.
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The track begins with Winter’s distinct vocals warbling and wobbling over a tender percussion groove.
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Foster effectively invented the idea of a professional songwriter; founded the American songbook and pioneered the now-standard verse-chorus structure; and inspired the intellectual-property law of music.
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Paired with bubbly disco grooves and chant-along choruses, the band became gay icons overnight.
Verb
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McGill’s superbly nuanced calls, runs, and trills elicited commentary from a second audience, perched in the trees above—a colloquium of finches, towhees, titmice, kingbirds, juncos, and Eurasian collared doves.
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Musselwhite punctuated the music with his harmonica trills and moans while his right knee bounced in time with the rhythms.
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Although Jones takes responsibility for the hurt and dysfunction his compulsive tomcatting caused, the legendary lothario details his conquests with barely disguised glee.
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Now, there is country-wide camaraderie and glee, mainstream momentum like never before.
Verb
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Why would sharp-as-nails med school grads opt toward a presumably dead-end occupational route?
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“Serenade.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/serenade. Accessed 6 Jul. 2026.
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