Thesaurus: serenade
Music sung or performed in the open air at nights; -- usually applied to musical entertainments given in the open air at night, especially by gentlemen, in a spirit of gallantry, under the windows of ladies.
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Definitions
- n. Music sung or performed in the open air at nights; -- usually applied to musical entertainments given in the open air at night, especially by gentlemen, in a spirit of gallantry, under the windows of ladies.
- n. A piece of music suitable to be performed at such times.
- v. t. To entertain with a serenade.
- v. i. To perform a serenade.
- n. a musical composition in several movements; has no fixed form
- n. a song characteristically played outside the house of a woman
- v. sing and play for somebody
- (a) Music sung or performed in the open air at nights; -- usually applied to musical entertainments given in the open air at night, especially by gentlemen, in a spirit of gallantry, under the windows of ladies. (b) A piece of music suitable to be performed at such times. To entertain with a serenade. To perform a serenade.
- v:47/n:53 n. a song characteristically played outside the house of a woman v. sing and play for somebody