"serenade" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /ˌsɛɹəˈneɪd/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-serenade.wav [Southern-England] Forms: serenades [plural]
Rhymes: -eɪd Etymology: Borrowed from French sérénade, from Italian serenata, from the past participle of serenare, from Latin serenare, from serenus (“calm”), of uncertain origin (see there). Etymology templates: {{bor|en|fr|sérénade}} French sérénade, {{der|en|it|serenata}} Italian serenata, {{m|it|serenare}} serenare, {{der|en|la|serenare}} Latin serenare, {{m|la|serenus||calm}} serenus (“calm”) Head templates: {{en-noun}} serenade (plural serenades)
  1. A love song that is sung directly to one's love interest, especially one performed below the window of a loved one in the evening. Translations (love song): nozkan (Breton), серенада (serenada) [feminine] (Bulgarian), serenata [feminine] (Catalan), 小夜曲 (xiǎoyèqū) (Chinese Mandarin), serenáda [feminine] (Czech), serenade [common-gender] (Danish), serenade [feminine] (Dutch), serenado (Esperanto), aftansongur [masculine] (Faroese), serenadi (Finnish), sérénade [feminine] (French), serenata [feminine] (Galician), Serenade [feminine] (German), סֶרֶנָדָה (serenáda) [feminine] (Hebrew), serenata [feminine] (Italian), セレナーデ (serenāde) (Japanese), セレナード (serenādo) (Japanese), 小夜曲 (alt: しょうやきょく, shōyakyoku, さよきょく, sayokyoku) (Japanese), 夜曲 (yakyoku) (alt: やきょく) (Japanese), 세레나데 (serenade) (Korean), серена́да (serenáda) [feminine] (Macedonian), serenada [feminine] (Polish), serenata [feminine] (Portuguese), serenadă [feminine] (Romanian), серена́да (serenáda) [feminine] (Russian), серенада [Cyrillic, feminine] (Serbo-Croatian), подокница [Cyrillic, feminine] (Serbo-Croatian), serenada [Roman, feminine] (Serbo-Croatian), podoknica [Roman, feminine] (Serbo-Croatian), serenata [feminine] (Spanish), harana (Tagalog), เซเรเนด (Thai), nosgan [feminine] (Welsh)
    Sense id: en-serenade-en-noun-0ou9K7Lz Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 69 27 4 Disambiguation of 'love song': 93 7
  2. (music) An instrumental composition in several movements. Categories (topical): Music Translations (instrumental composition): serenade [feminine] (Dutch), Serenade [feminine] (German), Ständchen [singular] (German), serenada [feminine] (Polish)
    Sense id: en-serenade-en-noun-G8ZxDxSn Topics: entertainment, lifestyle, music Disambiguation of 'instrumental composition': 16 84

Verb

IPA: /ˌsɛɹəˈneɪd/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-serenade.wav [Southern-England] Forms: serenades [present, singular, third-person], serenading [participle, present], serenaded [participle, past], serenaded [past]
Rhymes: -eɪd Etymology: Borrowed from French sérénade, from Italian serenata, from the past participle of serenare, from Latin serenare, from serenus (“calm”), of uncertain origin (see there). Etymology templates: {{bor|en|fr|sérénade}} French sérénade, {{der|en|it|serenata}} Italian serenata, {{m|it|serenare}} serenare, {{der|en|la|serenare}} Latin serenare, {{m|la|serenus||calm}} serenus (“calm”) Head templates: {{en-verb}} serenade (third-person singular simple present serenades, present participle serenading, simple past and past participle serenaded)
  1. (transitive) To sing or play a serenade for (someone). Tags: transitive Translations (serenade): правя серенада (pravja serenada) (Bulgarian), esittää serenadi [with-allative] (Finnish), sérénader (French), occentō (Latin), a cânta o serenadă (Romanian), dar serenata (Spanish)
    Sense id: en-serenade-en-verb-bz4nAcwg

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        "3": "",
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          "ref": "1865, Walt Whitman, “When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d”, in Sequel to Drum-Taps: When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d and other poems",
          "text": "From me to thee glad serenades, / Dances for thee I propose saluting thee, adornments and feastings for thee, / And the sights of the open landscape and the high-spread sky are fitting, / And life and the fields, and the huge and thoughtful night.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1980, Dire Straits (lyrics and music), “Romeo and Juliet”, in Making Movies",
          "text": "A lovestruck Romeo sings the streets a serenade / Laying everybody low with a love song that he made",
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        }
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          "text": "“Eine kleine Nachtmusik” is a well-known serenade written by Mozart.",
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        "(music) An instrumental composition in several movements."
      ],
      "topics": [
        "entertainment",
        "lifestyle",
        "music"
      ]
    }
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      "ipa": "/ˌsɛɹəˈneɪd/"
    },
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      "rhymes": "-eɪd"
    },
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      "audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-serenade.wav",
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      "tags": [
        "Southern-England"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (Southern England)"
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    {
      "code": "br",
      "lang": "Breton",
      "sense": "love song",
      "word": "nozkan"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "serenada",
      "sense": "love song",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "серенада"
    },
    {
      "code": "ca",
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "sense": "love song",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "serenata"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "xiǎoyèqū",
      "sense": "love song",
      "word": "小夜曲"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "love song",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "serenáda"
    },
    {
      "code": "da",
      "lang": "Danish",
      "sense": "love song",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "serenade"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "love song",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "serenade"
    },
    {
      "code": "eo",
      "lang": "Esperanto",
      "sense": "love song",
      "word": "serenado"
    },
    {
      "code": "fo",
      "lang": "Faroese",
      "sense": "love song",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "aftansongur"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "love song",
      "word": "serenadi"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "love song",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "sérénade"
    },
    {
      "code": "gl",
      "lang": "Galician",
      "sense": "love song",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "serenata"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "love song",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Serenade"
    },
    {
      "code": "he",
      "lang": "Hebrew",
      "roman": "serenáda",
      "sense": "love song",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "סֶרֶנָדָה"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "love song",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "serenata"
    },
    {
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "serenāde",
      "sense": "love song",
      "word": "セレナーデ"
    },
    {
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "serenādo",
      "sense": "love song",
      "word": "セレナード"
    },
    {
      "alt": "しょうやきょく, shōyakyoku, さよきょく, sayokyoku",
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "sense": "love song",
      "word": "小夜曲"
    },
    {
      "alt": "やきょく",
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "yakyoku",
      "sense": "love song",
      "word": "夜曲"
    },
    {
      "code": "ko",
      "lang": "Korean",
      "roman": "serenade",
      "sense": "love song",
      "word": "세레나데"
    },
    {
      "code": "mk",
      "lang": "Macedonian",
      "roman": "serenáda",
      "sense": "love song",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "серена́да"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "love song",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "serenada"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "love song",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "serenata"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "love song",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "serenadă"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "serenáda",
      "sense": "love song",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "серена́да"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "love song",
      "tags": [
        "Cyrillic",
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "серенада"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "love song",
      "tags": [
        "Cyrillic",
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "подокница"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "love song",
      "tags": [
        "Roman",
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "serenada"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "love song",
      "tags": [
        "Roman",
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "podoknica"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "love song",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "serenata"
    },
    {
      "code": "tl",
      "lang": "Tagalog",
      "sense": "love song",
      "word": "harana"
    },
    {
      "code": "th",
      "lang": "Thai",
      "sense": "love song",
      "word": "เซเรเนด"
    },
    {
      "code": "cy",
      "lang": "Welsh",
      "sense": "love song",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "nosgan"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "instrumental composition",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "serenade"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "instrumental composition",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Serenade"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "instrumental composition",
      "tags": [
        "singular"
      ],
      "word": "Ständchen"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "instrumental composition",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "serenada"
    }
  ],
  "word": "serenade"
}

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        {
          "ref": "2013 August 14, Daniel Taylor, The Guardian",
          "text": "The Southampton striker, who also struck a post late on, was being serenaded by the Wembley crowd before the end and should probably brace himself for some Lambert-mania over the coming days but, amid the eulogies, it should not overlook the deficiencies that were evident in another stodgy England performance.",
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        "(transitive) To sing or play a serenade for (someone)."
      ],
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      "ipa": "/ˌsɛɹəˈneɪd/"
    },
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    },
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      "tags": [
        "Southern-England"
      ],
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    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "pravja serenada",
      "sense": "serenade",
      "word": "правя серенада"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "serenade",
      "tags": [
        "with-allative"
      ],
      "word": "esittää serenadi"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "serenade",
      "word": "sérénader"
    },
    {
      "code": "la",
      "lang": "Latin",
      "sense": "serenade",
      "word": "occentō"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "serenade",
      "word": "a cânta o serenadă"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "serenade",
      "word": "dar serenata"
    }
  ],
  "word": "serenade"
}

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