Song
nounA short piece of music with words that are sung.
How to spell song
4 letters · 1 syllable
How to pronounce song
What does song mean?
- nounA short piece of music with words that are sung.
Song in a sentence
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The choir rehearsed the same song for the wedding three times.
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She wrote the lyrics for the song during her train commute.
Where does song come from?
Language of origin: Germanic
Song descends directly from the Old English 'sang' or 'song', meaning a singing or that which is sung, and it traces back to the same ancient Germanic root that gave us the verb 'to sing'. The Proto-Germanic ancestor 'sangwaz' produced close cousins right across the language family, including the German 'Sang' and the Dutch 'zang'. Because the word is native English rather than borrowed, its spelling has stayed reassuringly plain, with no silent letters or foreign quirks. The vowel shift from the 'sing/sang' family is the reason the noun settled on the 'o' spelling while its verb stayed with 'i'. Today it covers everything from a short tune with words to a bird's call, but the link to the act of singing has never been broken.
How the word is built
- song (from Old English sang/song: a singing, that which is sung)
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