SERENADE


Meaning of SERENADE in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ serɪneɪd ]

( serenades, serenading, serenaded)

1.

If one person serenades another, they sing or play a piece of music for them. Traditionally men did this outside the window of the woman they loved.

In the interval a blond boy dressed in white serenaded the company on the flute...

VERB : V n

Serenade is also a noun.

Placido Domingo sang his serenade of love.

N-COUNT

2.

In classical music, a serenade is a piece in several parts written for a small orchestra.

...Vaughan Williams’s Serenade to Music.

N-COUNT : oft in names

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