serenade
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from French sérénade, from Italian serenata, from the past participle of serenare, from Latin serenare, from serenus (“calm”), of uncertain origin (see there).
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Noun[edit]
serenade (plural serenades)
- A love song that is sung directly to one's love interest, especially one performed below the window of a loved one in the evening.
- 1865, Walt Whitman, “When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d”, in Sequel to Drum-Taps: When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d and other poems:
- From me to thee glad serenades, / Dances for thee I propose saluting thee, adornments and feastings for thee, / And the sights of the open landscape and the high-spread sky are fitting, / And life and the fields, and the huge and thoughtful night.
- 1980, Dire Straits (lyrics and music), “Romeo and Juliet”, in Making Movies:
- A lovestruck Romeo sings the streets a serenade / Laying everybody low with a love song that he made
- (music) An instrumental composition in several movements.
- “Eine kleine Nachtmusik” is a well-known serenade written by Mozart.
Translations[edit]
love song
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instrumental composition
Verb[edit]
serenade (third-person singular simple present serenades, present participle serenading, simple past and past participle serenaded)
- (transitive) To sing or play a serenade for (someone).
- 2013 August 14, Daniel Taylor, The Guardian[1]:
- The Southampton striker, who also struck a post late on, was being serenaded by the Wembley crowd before the end and should probably brace himself for some Lambert-mania over the coming days but, amid the eulogies, it should not overlook the deficiencies that were evident in another stodgy England performance.
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serenade
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serenade f (plural serenades)
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serenade f pl
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