Singer
nounA person who sings, especially as a performer or professionally.
How to spell singer
6 letters · 2 syllables
How to pronounce singer
Say the part in capitals loudest.
What does singer mean?
- nounA person who sings, especially as a performer or professionally.
Singer in a sentence
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The lead singer stepped up to the microphone before the band started.
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She trained for years to become a professional opera singer.
Where does singer come from?
Language of origin: Germanic
This word comes straight from the native English verb 'sing', which in Old English was 'singan', meaning to make musical sounds with the voice. That verb traces back to a Germanic root shared with Old Norse 'syngva' and modern German 'singen', and some scholars connect it to an even older sense of reciting or chanting a story aloud. The agent ending '-er', also of Germanic stock, simply marks the person who performs the action, exactly as in 'baker' or 'runner'. Because the word is wholly Germanic and built from plain English parts, its spelling is regular: the soft 'ng' sound is written 'ng', and the only mild trap is resisting any urge to double the consonant, since it is 'singer', not 'singger'.
How the word is built
- sing (from Old English singan: to sing)
- -er (agent suffix: one who does)
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