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as in ballad
a short musical composition for the human voice often with instrumental accompaniment
she sang a little-known song for the talent show
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2
as in poem
a composition using rhythm and often rhyme to create a lyrical effect
the songs of Shakespeare
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4
as in dime
a very small sum of money
developers bought the land for a song
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as in poetry
writing that uses rhythm, vivid language, and often rhyme to provoke an emotional response
a hero honored in song and story
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Recent Examples of song
These days, she gets paid to perform those same songs three days a week for tourists in Honolulu’s Iolani Palace in the imprisonment room where Queen Liliʻuokalani was jailed 130 years ago.
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Matt Negrin, Rolling Stone, 20 Sep. 2025
The Life of a Showgirl includes 12 songs, with Sabrina Carpenter featured on the title track.
—Nicholas Rice, PEOPLE, 20 Sep. 2025
Russia has been excluded from the Eurovision song contest since Putin ordered tens of thousands of troops into Ukraine in 2022.
—CNN Money, 20 Sep. 2025
The song Golden from the soundtrack has topped the US Billboard and UK charts for several weeks.
—Liz Shackleton, Deadline, 20 Sep. 2025
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Matt Negrin, Rolling Stone, 20 Sep. 2025
The Life of a Showgirl includes 12 songs, with Sabrina Carpenter featured on the title track.
—Nicholas Rice, PEOPLE, 20 Sep. 2025
Russia has been excluded from the Eurovision song contest since Putin ordered tens of thousands of troops into Ukraine in 2022.
—CNN Money, 20 Sep. 2025
The song Golden from the soundtrack has topped the US Billboard and UK charts for several weeks.
—Liz Shackleton, Deadline, 20 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for song
Noun
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Whether leading her trio through sultry ballads or high-energy swing numbers, Riketté always delivers a performance that’s both nostalgic and fresh.—
Joanne Shurvell,
Forbes.com,
15 Sep. 2025
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In the early days of my career, there were a lot of ballads in my repertoire and the audience was mainly seated at my shows.—
Billboard Japan,
Billboard,
12 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Hornung has always loved reading poetry and writing poems.—
Karen Billing,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
16 Sep. 2025
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One of the earliest poetic works that collectively shaped us is the Shahnameh, an epic poem by the Persian poet Ferdowsi.—
Fatemeh Jamalpour,
Literary Hub,
15 Sep. 2025
Noun
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The band teamed up with Pitbull, who has recently been mining the past for catchy melodies and sampling famous tracks, turning them into modern pop cuts.—
Hugh McIntyre,
Forbes.com,
19 Sep. 2025
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The scenes, set to an emotional melody, span over a year, portraying what the owner describes as a unique and moving journey of paternal care.—
Melissa Fleur Afshar,
MSNBC Newsweek,
19 Sep. 2025
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The Pats replaced Spillane with Mapu for a single snap of dime personnel in the third quarter, but that was it.—
Andrew Callahan,
Boston Herald,
16 Sep. 2025
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The beauty of Major League Baseball is that quite often, a 162-game season can change on a dime thanks to one big swing.—
Jackson Roberts,
MSNBC Newsweek,
15 Sep. 2025
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Photo courtesy of Templon, Paris - Brussels For the past 70 years, Jim Dine has remained one of the most singular voices in contemporary art with a practice that spans painting, drawing, printmaking, sculpture and poetry.—
Y-Jean Mun-Delsalle,
Forbes.com,
19 Sep. 2025
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Later in her life, Maar mostly withdrew from photography and concentrated on painting, also finding solace in poetry, religion and philosophy, according to London’s Tate Modern art gallery.—
Billy Stockwell,
CNN Money,
19 Sep. 2025
Noun
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In between, the camera flashed to the audience and caught Sarah Paulson, Colin Farrell, Jessica Williams, and Michael Urie dancing and singing along to the lyrics.—
Lauren Huff,
Entertainment Weekly,
15 Sep. 2025
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The title track opens the affair by lurching and creeping forward for ten minutes with odd, off-putting lyrics.—
Jed Gottlieb,
Boston Herald,
13 Sep. 2025
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The sequences of Ann and her acolytes singing and dancing to remixed Shaker hymns are transcendent, capturing the completeness of their devotion.—
Shirley Li,
The Atlantic,
20 Sep. 2025
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The group sang Christian religious hymns accompanied by a wailing violin, cello and an acoustic guitar.—
Laura Gersony,
AZCentral.com,
10 Sep. 2025
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His most notable investments are the phone number 444-4444 and its accompanying jingle, which has played throughout homes for more than a decade.—
Otto Rabe,
Cincinnati Enquirer,
11 Sep. 2025
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The music then switches to the original Sex and the City opening and closing jingles as the credits begin to roll.—
EW.com,
EW.com,
15 Aug. 2025
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“Song.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/song. Accessed 22 Sep. 2025.
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