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单词 songster
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Definition of songster in English:

songster

noun ˈsɒŋstəˈsɔŋstər
  • 1A person who sings, especially fluently and skilfully.

    talented songsters from all over Merseyside took pubs by storm
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Better to think of him as a songster, an older, more encompassing sort of folk artist.
    • Shelley was no idle songster, singing for singing's sake.
    • The packed programme started shortly after 8 pm with Edwards, who shot to fame in the 1980s, making a special appearance together with local songster Indar Kanhai.
    • They were written in spiral notebooks and most were about Australian songster Olivia Newton-John, for whom I must confess I also have an affection.
    • Pop songster Paul Williams, who penned such tunes as The Rainbow Connection, scored the music and songs for the film.
    • What is it about the Irish that we insist on taking to our bosoms musicians who, in any other country, would be considered B grade, jobbing songsters?
    • In a current exhibition Pop - The Continuing Influence of Popular Culture on Contemporary Art - the centre has been showing off works by Mr Warhol as well as songster John Lennon's wife Yoko Ono.
    • Cole manifests everything that is regal and rich about the art of performance, both as an instrumentalist and songster.
    • It was called reggae, and its principal international songster, Bob Marley, wasted little time in getting to the political point.
    • Ryan is often described as a prolific songster who borrows from, mimics even, the likes of Gram Parsons and Paul Westerberg from The Replacements.
    • Local label Trees Music has recently re-released Hodood to coincide with the Mongolian songster's upcoming Taiwan gig set.
    • When political songsters talk of this kind of change, they are often referring to the imputed ability of songs to help ‘educate’ people.
    • The crew also features Jason Selman, handy with both words and trumpet, and MC Josephine Watson, songster and wordist with a background in theatrical improv.
    • We all joined in from time to time, warbling as only a bunch of half-tipsy songsters can warble.
    • First up will be those Haverfordwest melodic darkcore songsters Closure, blowing away the cobwebs of the Queens Hall Acoustic Room.
    • Woody Guthrie was one of a long line of folk songsters going back at least to Joe Hill, identifying with the poor and exploited.
    • Who knows what could be in store for the dedicated, hard rock songsters.
    • Rocker Tony Wright, the chart-topping songster of the ex-band Terrorvision, is back on the road again with a batch of new tunes - all inspired by his spell as a dry stone waller.
    • For all this, In the Belly of a Whale doesn't really hint at the disheveled songster I remember from Folk Fest.
    • Meanwhile Stuart Murdoch, the lead singer of the prize-winning songsters Belle & Sebastian, has moved out of the tied flat he occupied for a decade.
    Synonyms
    singer, vocalist, soloist, songstress, crooner, warbler, melodist, artiste
    French chanteuse
    informal popster, soulster, folkie, songbird
    1. 1.1 A person who writes songs or verse.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Comedian / songster Tom Lehrer didn't know the half of it.
      • Behold the songster at work - a process found in early Armstrong, Guthrie and Robert Johnson.
      • Based on the subject lines of e-mail spam featuring songs by like-minded Web songsters, it may help pave the way for a new brand of musician who can rock your world without ever leaving the basement.
      • Dismissed as ‘pot poets’ by more elite writers, these largely anonymous songsters reputedly wrote under the influence of alcohol in order to earn money for more drink.
      • This is mostly true for fans, friends, and family of unsung folk hero Tim Hardin, the prolific songster who wasted his life living wasted.
      • The legal action comes from a group of 52 independent songsters and publishers says a report in the San Jose Mercury.
    2. 1.2 A songbird.
      robins are the most commonly heard songsters
      Example sentencesExamples
      • But often the songsters can be difficult to locate as they flit restlessly in the foliage of a windbreak of lofty cypresses.
      • I knew a lot of birds the songster was not, and I had narrowed down it to one of two possibilities, both southern birds that were not often encountered in Mass., especially on the Cape.
      • While recent studies suggest some city songsters might be able to adapt to increased noise pollution, scientists still aren't sure which bird species best tolerate noise pollution.
      • Sadly, song thrushes, one of the finest wild songsters, dropped this year after a slight increase in recent years.
      • But are birds unfeeling, mechanical songsters, driven to sing but never understanding what it is they do?
      • It seems likely that the two songsters resented this influx of visitors and were proclaiming their territory from aloft.
      • In its native habitat, the Canary Islands, the bird is a nondescript greenish songster with a melodious warble.
      • Wood pigeons and songsters flee at its appearance, yet rarely do they fall prey to this large hawk.
      • Yet the very next year the population there had crashed to just 11 songsters.
      • They're pretty birds, great songsters - delivering what to my ear is a deeper, huskier version of a goldfinch's melody - and therefore welcome additions to the backyard fauna.
      • Brumm and Todt played white noise to nightingales - ardent European songsters - and measured the amplitude, or loudness, of the birds' vocal performance.
      • If you'll take a few moments each day to look and listen for this engaging songster who often sing from an elevated perch, such as the top of a small shrub.
      • Another strange fact is that this beautiful songster is in decline all over Europe.

Origin

Old English sangestre (see song, -ster).

 
 

Definition of songster in US English:

songster

nounˈsôNGstərˈsɔŋstər
  • 1A person who sings, especially fluently and skillfully.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Shelley was no idle songster, singing for singing's sake.
    • Pop songster Paul Williams, who penned such tunes as The Rainbow Connection, scored the music and songs for the film.
    • Better to think of him as a songster, an older, more encompassing sort of folk artist.
    • We all joined in from time to time, warbling as only a bunch of half-tipsy songsters can warble.
    • Rocker Tony Wright, the chart-topping songster of the ex-band Terrorvision, is back on the road again with a batch of new tunes - all inspired by his spell as a dry stone waller.
    • In a current exhibition Pop - The Continuing Influence of Popular Culture on Contemporary Art - the centre has been showing off works by Mr Warhol as well as songster John Lennon's wife Yoko Ono.
    • First up will be those Haverfordwest melodic darkcore songsters Closure, blowing away the cobwebs of the Queens Hall Acoustic Room.
    • What is it about the Irish that we insist on taking to our bosoms musicians who, in any other country, would be considered B grade, jobbing songsters?
    • They were written in spiral notebooks and most were about Australian songster Olivia Newton-John, for whom I must confess I also have an affection.
    • For all this, In the Belly of a Whale doesn't really hint at the disheveled songster I remember from Folk Fest.
    • The crew also features Jason Selman, handy with both words and trumpet, and MC Josephine Watson, songster and wordist with a background in theatrical improv.
    • Woody Guthrie was one of a long line of folk songsters going back at least to Joe Hill, identifying with the poor and exploited.
    • Who knows what could be in store for the dedicated, hard rock songsters.
    • The packed programme started shortly after 8 pm with Edwards, who shot to fame in the 1980s, making a special appearance together with local songster Indar Kanhai.
    • Meanwhile Stuart Murdoch, the lead singer of the prize-winning songsters Belle & Sebastian, has moved out of the tied flat he occupied for a decade.
    • Ryan is often described as a prolific songster who borrows from, mimics even, the likes of Gram Parsons and Paul Westerberg from The Replacements.
    • Cole manifests everything that is regal and rich about the art of performance, both as an instrumentalist and songster.
    • It was called reggae, and its principal international songster, Bob Marley, wasted little time in getting to the political point.
    • When political songsters talk of this kind of change, they are often referring to the imputed ability of songs to help ‘educate’ people.
    • Local label Trees Music has recently re-released Hodood to coincide with the Mongolian songster's upcoming Taiwan gig set.
    Synonyms
    singer, vocalist, soloist, songstress, crooner, warbler, melodist, artiste
    1. 1.1 A person who writes songs or verse.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Dismissed as ‘pot poets’ by more elite writers, these largely anonymous songsters reputedly wrote under the influence of alcohol in order to earn money for more drink.
      • Based on the subject lines of e-mail spam featuring songs by like-minded Web songsters, it may help pave the way for a new brand of musician who can rock your world without ever leaving the basement.
      • The legal action comes from a group of 52 independent songsters and publishers says a report in the San Jose Mercury.
      • Comedian / songster Tom Lehrer didn't know the half of it.
      • Behold the songster at work - a process found in early Armstrong, Guthrie and Robert Johnson.
      • This is mostly true for fans, friends, and family of unsung folk hero Tim Hardin, the prolific songster who wasted his life living wasted.
    2. 1.2 A songbird.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • While recent studies suggest some city songsters might be able to adapt to increased noise pollution, scientists still aren't sure which bird species best tolerate noise pollution.
      • It seems likely that the two songsters resented this influx of visitors and were proclaiming their territory from aloft.
      • Brumm and Todt played white noise to nightingales - ardent European songsters - and measured the amplitude, or loudness, of the birds' vocal performance.
      • In its native habitat, the Canary Islands, the bird is a nondescript greenish songster with a melodious warble.
      • But often the songsters can be difficult to locate as they flit restlessly in the foliage of a windbreak of lofty cypresses.
      • Wood pigeons and songsters flee at its appearance, yet rarely do they fall prey to this large hawk.
      • I knew a lot of birds the songster was not, and I had narrowed down it to one of two possibilities, both southern birds that were not often encountered in Mass., especially on the Cape.
      • Sadly, song thrushes, one of the finest wild songsters, dropped this year after a slight increase in recent years.
      • Another strange fact is that this beautiful songster is in decline all over Europe.
      • They're pretty birds, great songsters - delivering what to my ear is a deeper, huskier version of a goldfinch's melody - and therefore welcome additions to the backyard fauna.
      • If you'll take a few moments each day to look and listen for this engaging songster who often sing from an elevated perch, such as the top of a small shrub.
      • Yet the very next year the population there had crashed to just 11 songsters.
      • But are birds unfeeling, mechanical songsters, driven to sing but never understanding what it is they do?

Origin

Old English sangestre (see song, -ster).

 
 
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