Song Definition–noun | 1. | a short metrical composition intended or adapted for singing, esp. one in rhymed stanzas; a lyric; a ballad. | | 2. | a musical piece adapted for singing or simulating a piece to be sung: Mendelssohn's “Songs without Words.” | | 3. | poetical composition; poetry. | | 4. | the art or act of singing; vocal music. | | 5. | something that is sung. | | 6. | an elaborate vocal signal produced by an animal, as the distinctive sounds produced by certain birds, frogs, etc., in a courtship or territorial display. | —Idiom | 7. | for a song, at a very low price; as a bargain: We bought the rug for a song when the estate was auctioned off. | |
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