songstern.

Brit.

/ˈsɒŋstə/, U.S.

/ˈsɔŋstər/,

/ˈsɑŋstər/

Forms:

α. Old English sangestre, Old English sangystre, Middle English sangester, Middle English sangstere; Scottish pre-1700 sangaster, pre-1700 sangistar, pre-1700 sangister, pre-1700 sangstair, pre-1700 sangstar, pre-1700 sangstare, pre-1700 sangstere, pre-1700 1700s– sangster.

β. Middle English– songster, 1600s songstare, 1600s songstarre (Scottish).

Origin: A word inherited from Germanic.

Etymology: Cognate with or formed similarly to Middle Dutch sangster female singer (Dutch zangster ) < the Germanic base of song n.¹ + the Germanic base of -ster suffix. Compare songer n. and also singster n. With sense 3 compare earlier songbird n.In Old English only attested as a gloss translating classical Latin cantrix , a feminine agent noun (see -trix suffix and compare cantor n.¹). Quot. 1327 at sense 1a appears to be the earliest record of the word being used to denote a man.

a. A person who sings, a singer. In early use: spec. †a female singer, a songstress (obsolete).In quots. 1273-4 and 1327 as a surname.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > music > musician > singer > [noun]

songsterOE

singerc1330

chantera1387

singster1388

voicea1513

modulatora1527

chorister1589

songman1603

cantor1609

warbler1611

melodist1789

vocalist1790

cantator1866

vocaller1876

OE Ælfric Gram. (St. John's Oxf.) 71 Hic cantor, þes sangere, haec cantrix, þeos sangystre [OE Cambr. Univ. Libr. sangestre].

OE Ælfric Gloss. (St. John's Oxf.) 299 Cantor, sangere. Cantrix, sangestre. Lector, rædere.

1273–4 Close Roll, 2 Edward I (P.R.O.: C 54/91) m. 4 (schedule) Eua le sangstere tenet .ij. acras pro ij.s.vij.d.

1327 in B. Thuresson Middle Eng. Occup. Terms (1950) 174 (MED) Ad. [i.e. Adam] le Songster.

?a1400 (a1338) R. Mannyng Chron. (Petyt) (1996) i. 4001 He was god of fithelers, of iugelours & sangesters.

a1425 (c1384) Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Corpus Oxf.) (1850) Ezek. xxvi. 13 Y shal make the multitude of thi songsters [L. canticorum] for to reste.

1497 in T. Dickson Accts. Treasurer Scotl. (1877) I. 368 Henrj of Hadingtoune the sangstere.

1534 in J. B. Paul Accts. Treasurer Scotl. (1905) VI. 207 To George Contis, sangstar, to by him hois and doublet agane Pasche.

1584 W. Warner Pan his Syrinx sig. K4^v He had..heard that melodious hermonie, or rather accounted by him (an vnpractised Songster) iarring discorde.

1624 W. Bedell Copies Certaine Lett. iii. 58 The fault of the Italians: though they thinke themselues the onely songsters in the world.

c1670 A. Wood Life (1891) I. 274 Sylvanus Taylor,..fellow of All-soules; and violist and songster.

1713 T. Tickell in Guardian 7 Apr. 1/2 Thus..Corydon tells Alexis that he is the finest Songster of the Country.

1785 W. Cowper Task i. 498 The peasant too,..Himself a songster, is as gay as he.

1835 G. P. R. James Gipsy xi. 328 Will, you are a songster, let us hear your voice.

1880 Harper's Mag. June 39/2 The obscure boy, the jovial songster, the ascetic monk.

1938 Times 31 Aug. 13/3 He matched his voice against the songsters as he pointed to the buildings along the route.

1977 Washington Post Mag. (Nexis) 16 Oct. 44 The assembled handful of would-be songsters.

2005 Courier-Mail (Brisbane) 30 June 1/8 Iconic counterculture songster Bob Dylan.

b. U.S. An itinerant African-American singer and musician performing a wide variety of music on guitar or banjo. Now historical.Songsters were most prevalent during the post-Reconstruction period and are often credited with influencing blues music, which originated around the same time.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > music > musician > singer > other types of singer > [noun] > black singer

songster1925

1925 H. N. Odum & G. B. Johnson Negro & his Songs i. 1 Anyone hearing him sing..must agree..with the oft-repeated song claim of the ‘musicianer’, ‘music-physicianer’ and ‘songster’, that ‘All don't see me goin' to hear me sing.’

1964 Amer. Folk Music Occas. No. 1. 61 The time when every Southern town had its songster, a man who was virtually in charge of the community's social life.

1970 P. Oliver Savannah Syncopators 86 Many of the older blues singers and songsters recall playing for white functions.

2011 Washington Post (Nexis) 9 Sept. b1 Williams is perhaps the greatest living example of a musician who grew up playing in the style of the songster—the largely African American tradition of troubadours that is older than the blues.

2. A poet; a writer of songs or verse.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > poet > [noun]

versifierc1340

poeta1382

metrera1387

sayer?a1400

makerc1460

metrician?a1475

metrist?1545

singer1560

swannetc1560

songster1584

muse1596

Castalianist1607

metre-maker1611

versificator1611

swan1613

versemaker1647

verseman1652

Parnassian1658

bard1667

factist1676

poetic1687

minstrel1718

shaper1816

1584 King James VI & I Ess. Prentise Poesie sig. Diiij Homer, who a songster bene, Albeit a begger.

a1637 B. Jonson Under-woods xlii. 26 in Wks. (1640) III Silke will draw some sneaking Songster thither. It is a ryming Age, and Verses swarme At every stall.

1683 C. Wase tr. Cicero Five Days Deb. Tusculum iii. xix. 181 O excellent Poet! however slighted by the Modern Songsters of idle Sonnets.

1743 in W. W. Wilkins Polit. Ballads (1860) II. 304 Each party's joke, Each trifling songster's sport.

1788 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall VI. lxx. 567 Petrarch is the Italian songster of Laura and love.

1848 ‘L. Mariotti’ Italy Past & Present II. vi. 214 Giusti may be a rival, but no imitator of the French songster [Béranger].

1872 C. H. Spurgeon Treasury of David III. Ps. lix. 14 Here verse six is repeated, as if the songster defied his foes.

1958 D. Vittorini High Points in Hist. Ital. Lit. 14 A mediocre songster.

1999 G. Schultz Gendered Lyric vii. 209 Literary history has tended to relegate Verlaine to the position of a melodic, melancholic songster.

3. A songbird, spec. one with a particularly melodious song.

ΘΚΠ

the world > animals > birds > sound or bird defined by > [noun] > bird that makes sound

singing bird1565

songbird1573

whistler1590

singer1626

songster1656

songstress1684

poeta1748

squeaker1808

twitterer1815

night singer1816

song-fowl1877

1656 tr. J. A. Comenius Latinæ Linguæ Janua Reserata: Gate Lat. Tongue Unlocked xvi. §144 The Songsters [L. Oscines], living on seeds; the Yelamber, of Poppie; the Linnet, of flax.

1700 J. Dryden Flower & Leaf in Fables 399 And either Songster holding out their Throats, And folding up their Wings renew'd their Notes.

1730 J. Thomson Autumn in Seasons 171 Haply some widow'd songster pours his plaint.

1830 M. Donovan Domest. Econ. II. iii. 143 The Skylark, a superior songster, is much sought after in most countries where it abounds.

1872 E. Coues Key to N. Amer. Birds 70 Among our birds, the larks (Alaudidae), held to be Oscine, and certainly to be called songsters, have the tarsus perfectly scutellate behind.

1921 F. S. Mathews Field Bk. Wild Birds & their Music (rev. ed.) 63 The Orchard Oriole is an exceptionally good songster.

1960 Times 29 Sept. (Nigeria Suppl.) p. xxi/7 The colourful white-headed robin chat, that richest and most versatile of Nigerian songsters.

2015 Stirling Observer (Nexis) 5 June (Features section) 25 Out of nowhere will suddenly emerge a snatch of real, sweet music, worthy of a songster such as a blackbird.

4. Chiefly U.S. A songbook; esp. a pocket-sized, relatively inexpensive book containing the lyrics (and occasionally melody lines) of popular songs. Now historical.Originally in the titles of such works.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > music > written or printed music > [noun] > music book > songbook

songbook1473

singing book1580

songster1739

partbook1864

1739 (title) The Merry Companion: Or, Universal Songster.

1835 Adams Sentinel (Gettysburg, Pa.) 26 Jan. The American Songster, being a selection of the most popular airs.

1899 Glasgow Herald 25 May 3/3 White's School Songster.

1934 Papers Bibliogr. Soc. Amer. 28 134 Mungo's ‘Dear heart! What a terrible life am I led!’ appeared..[in 1788]..—the earliest appearance of a negro song in any of the songsters I have seen.

1979 R. B. Browne Alabama Folk Lyric 113 [The words and music] appeared from the beginning in numerous songsters.

2004 B. C. Kelley & M. A. Snell Bugle Resounding 139 Both writers do agree that soldiers were buying songsters.

Compounds

† songster thrush n. Obsolete the Asian glossy starling, Aplonis panayensis, which has black plumage, red irises, and vocalizations consisting of whistles and trills.

ΚΠ

1781 J. Latham Gen. Synopsis Birds I. i. 59 Songster Thrush..has a fine song.

1829 E. Griffith et al. Cuvier's Animal Kingdom VI. 394 Songster Thrush,..Turdus Cantor.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2017; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	songster
释义	songstern. Brit. /ˈsɒŋstə/, U.S. /ˈsɔŋstər/, /ˈsɑŋstər/ Forms: α. Old English sangestre, Old English sangystre, Middle English sangester, Middle English sangstere; Scottish pre-1700 sangaster, pre-1700 sangistar, pre-1700 sangister, pre-1700 sangstair, pre-1700 sangstar, pre-1700 sangstare, pre-1700 sangstere, pre-1700 1700s– sangster. β. Middle English– songster, 1600s songstare, 1600s songstarre (Scottish). Origin: A word inherited from Germanic. Etymology: Cognate with or formed similarly to Middle Dutch sangster female singer (Dutch zangster ) < the Germanic base of song n.¹ + the Germanic base of -ster suffix. Compare songer n. and also singster n. With sense 3 compare earlier songbird n.In Old English only attested as a gloss translating classical Latin cantrix , a feminine agent noun (see -trix suffix and compare cantor n.¹). Quot. 1327 at sense 1a appears to be the earliest record of the word being used to denote a man. 1. a. A person who sings, a singer. In early use: spec. †a female singer, a songstress (obsolete).In quots. 1273-4 and 1327 as a surname. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > musician > singer > [noun] songsterOE singerc1330 chantera1387 singster1388 voicea1513 modulatora1527 chorister1589 songman1603 cantor1609 warbler1611 melodist1789 vocalist1790 cantator1866 vocaller1876 OE Ælfric Gram. (St. John's Oxf.) 71 Hic cantor, þes sangere, haec cantrix, þeos sangystre [OE Cambr. Univ. Libr. sangestre]. OE Ælfric Gloss. (St. John's Oxf.) 299 Cantor, sangere. Cantrix, sangestre. Lector, rædere. 1273–4 Close Roll, 2 Edward I (P.R.O.: C 54/91) m. 4 (schedule) Eua le sangstere tenet .ij. acras pro ij.s.vij.d. 1327 in B. Thuresson Middle Eng. Occup. Terms (1950) 174 (MED) Ad. [i.e. Adam] le Songster. ?a1400 (a1338) R. Mannyng Chron. (Petyt) (1996) i. 4001 He was god of fithelers, of iugelours & sangesters. a1425 (c1384) Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Corpus Oxf.) (1850) Ezek. xxvi. 13 Y shal make the multitude of thi songsters [L. canticorum] for to reste. 1497 in T. Dickson Accts. Treasurer Scotl. (1877) I. 368 Henrj of Hadingtoune the sangstere. 1534 in J. B. Paul Accts. Treasurer Scotl. (1905) VI. 207 To George Contis, sangstar, to by him hois and doublet agane Pasche. 1584 W. Warner Pan his Syrinx sig. K4^v He had..heard that melodious hermonie, or rather accounted by him (an vnpractised Songster) iarring discorde. 1624 W. Bedell Copies Certaine Lett. iii. 58 The fault of the Italians: though they thinke themselues the onely songsters in the world. c1670 A. Wood Life (1891) I. 274 Sylvanus Taylor,..fellow of All-soules; and violist and songster. 1713 T. Tickell in Guardian 7 Apr. 1/2 Thus..Corydon tells Alexis that he is the finest Songster of the Country. 1785 W. Cowper Task i. 498 The peasant too,..Himself a songster, is as gay as he. 1835 G. P. R. James Gipsy xi. 328 Will, you are a songster, let us hear your voice. 1880 Harper's Mag. June 39/2 The obscure boy, the jovial songster, the ascetic monk. 1938 Times 31 Aug. 13/3 He matched his voice against the songsters as he pointed to the buildings along the route. 1977 Washington Post Mag. (Nexis) 16 Oct. 44 The assembled handful of would-be songsters. 2005 Courier-Mail (Brisbane) 30 June 1/8 Iconic counterculture songster Bob Dylan. b. U.S. An itinerant African-American singer and musician performing a wide variety of music on guitar or banjo. Now historical.Songsters were most prevalent during the post-Reconstruction period and are often credited with influencing blues music, which originated around the same time. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > musician > singer > other types of singer > [noun] > black singer songster1925 1925 H. N. Odum & G. B. Johnson Negro & his Songs i. 1 Anyone hearing him sing..must agree..with the oft-repeated song claim of the ‘musicianer’, ‘music-physicianer’ and ‘songster’, that ‘All don't see me goin' to hear me sing.’ 1964 Amer. Folk Music Occas. No. 1. 61 The time when every Southern town had its songster, a man who was virtually in charge of the community's social life. 1970 P. Oliver Savannah Syncopators 86 Many of the older blues singers and songsters recall playing for white functions. 2011 Washington Post (Nexis) 9 Sept. b1 Williams is perhaps the greatest living example of a musician who grew up playing in the style of the songster—the largely African American tradition of troubadours that is older than the blues. 2. A poet; a writer of songs or verse. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > poet > [noun] versifierc1340 poeta1382 metrera1387 sayer?a1400 makerc1460 metrician?a1475 metrist?1545 singer1560 swannetc1560 songster1584 muse1596 Castalianist1607 metre-maker1611 versificator1611 swan1613 versemaker1647 verseman1652 Parnassian1658 bard1667 factist1676 poetic1687 minstrel1718 shaper1816 1584 King James VI & I Ess. Prentise Poesie sig. Diiij Homer, who a songster bene, Albeit a begger. a1637 B. Jonson Under-woods xlii. 26 in Wks. (1640) III Silke will draw some sneaking Songster thither. It is a ryming Age, and Verses swarme At every stall. 1683 C. Wase tr. Cicero Five Days Deb. Tusculum iii. xix. 181 O excellent Poet! however slighted by the Modern Songsters of idle Sonnets. 1743 in W. W. Wilkins Polit. Ballads (1860) II. 304 Each party's joke, Each trifling songster's sport. 1788 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall VI. lxx. 567 Petrarch is the Italian songster of Laura and love. 1848 ‘L. Mariotti’ Italy Past & Present II. vi. 214 Giusti may be a rival, but no imitator of the French songster [Béranger]. 1872 C. H. Spurgeon Treasury of David III. Ps. lix. 14 Here verse six is repeated, as if the songster defied his foes. 1958 D. Vittorini High Points in Hist. Ital. Lit. 14 A mediocre songster. 1999 G. Schultz Gendered Lyric vii. 209 Literary history has tended to relegate Verlaine to the position of a melodic, melancholic songster. 3. A songbird, spec. one with a particularly melodious song. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > sound or bird defined by > [noun] > bird that makes sound singing bird1565 songbird1573 whistler1590 singer1626 songster1656 songstress1684 poeta1748 squeaker1808 twitterer1815 night singer1816 song-fowl1877 1656 tr. J. A. Comenius Latinæ Linguæ Janua Reserata: Gate Lat. Tongue Unlocked xvi. §144 The Songsters [L. Oscines], living on seeds; the Yelamber, of Poppie; the Linnet, of flax. 1700 J. Dryden Flower & Leaf in Fables 399 And either Songster holding out their Throats, And folding up their Wings renew'd their Notes. 1730 J. Thomson Autumn in Seasons 171 Haply some widow'd songster pours his plaint. 1830 M. Donovan Domest. Econ. II. iii. 143 The Skylark, a superior songster, is much sought after in most countries where it abounds. 1872 E. Coues Key to N. Amer. Birds 70 Among our birds, the larks (Alaudidae), held to be Oscine, and certainly to be called songsters, have the tarsus perfectly scutellate behind. 1921 F. S. Mathews Field Bk. Wild Birds & their Music (rev. ed.) 63 The Orchard Oriole is an exceptionally good songster. 1960 Times 29 Sept. (Nigeria Suppl.) p. xxi/7 The colourful white-headed robin chat, that richest and most versatile of Nigerian songsters. 2015 Stirling Observer (Nexis) 5 June (Features section) 25 Out of nowhere will suddenly emerge a snatch of real, sweet music, worthy of a songster such as a blackbird. 4. Chiefly U.S. A songbook; esp. a pocket-sized, relatively inexpensive book containing the lyrics (and occasionally melody lines) of popular songs. Now historical.Originally in the titles of such works. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > written or printed music > [noun] > music book > songbook songbook1473 singing book1580 songster1739 partbook1864 1739 (title) The Merry Companion: Or, Universal Songster. 1835 Adams Sentinel (Gettysburg, Pa.) 26 Jan. The American Songster, being a selection of the most popular airs. 1899 Glasgow Herald 25 May 3/3 White's School Songster. 1934 Papers Bibliogr. Soc. Amer. 28 134 Mungo's ‘Dear heart! What a terrible life am I led!’ appeared..[in 1788]..—the earliest appearance of a negro song in any of the songsters I have seen. 1979 R. B. Browne Alabama Folk Lyric 113 [The words and music] appeared from the beginning in numerous songsters. 2004 B. C. Kelley & M. A. Snell Bugle Resounding 139 Both writers do agree that soldiers were buying songsters. Compounds † songster thrush n. Obsolete the Asian glossy starling, Aplonis panayensis, which has black plumage, red irises, and vocalizations consisting of whistles and trills. ΚΠ 1781 J. Latham Gen. Synopsis Birds I. i. 59 Songster Thrush..has a fine song. 1829 E. Griffith et al. Cuvier's Animal Kingdom VI. 394 Songster Thrush,..Turdus Cantor. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2017; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.OE
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