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songster /ˈsɒŋstə /noun1A person who sings, especially fluently and skilfully: talented songsters from all over Merseyside took pubs by storm...- Shelley was no idle songster, singing for singing's sake.
- When political songsters talk of this kind of change, they are often referring to the imputed ability of songs to help ‘educate’ people.
- 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?
Synonyms singer, vocalist, soloist, songstress, crooner, warbler, melodist, artiste; French chanteuse informal popster, soulster, folkie, songbird 1.1A person who writes songs or verse.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.
- The legal action comes from a group of 52 independent songsters and publishers says a report in the San Jose Mercury.
1.2A songbird: robins are the most commonly heard songsters...- Wood pigeons and songsters flee at its appearance, yet rarely do they fall prey to this large hawk.
- Brumm and Todt played white noise to nightingales - ardent European songsters - and measured the amplitude, or loudness, of the birds' vocal performance.
- 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.
OriginOld English sangestre (see song, -ster). |