(~s)
Frequency: The word is one of the 1500 most common words in English.
1.
A ~ is words sung to a tune.
...a voice singing a Spanish ~.
...a love ~.
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2.
Song is the art of singing.
...dance, music, mime and ~.
...the history of American popular ~.
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3.
A bird’s ~ is the pleasant, musical sounds that it makes.
It’s been a long time since I heard a blackbird’s ~ in the evening.
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4.
see also bird~ , ~ and dance , ~bird , swan ~
5.
If someone bursts into ~ or breaks into ~, they start singing.
I feel as if I should break into ~.
PHRASE: V inflects