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Definition: Serenade |
SerenadeNoun1. A musical composition in several movements; has no fixed form. 2. A song characteristically played outside the house of a woman. Verb1. Sing and play for somebody. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "serenade" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1613. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Dream Interpretation | To hear a serenade in your dream, you will have pleasant news from absent friends, and your anticipations will not fail you. If you are one of the serenaders, there are many delightful things in your future. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted .... |
Literature | Serenade (3 syl.). Music performed in the serene- i.e. in the open air at eventide (Latin, serenum whence the French sérénade and Italian serenata). "Or serenate which the starved lover sings To his proud fair." Milton: Paradise Lost, iii. 769. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonym: SerenadeSynonym: divertimento (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Courtesy | Receive, do the honors, usher, greet, hail, bid welcome; welcome, welcome with open arms; shake hands; hold out the hand, press the hand, squeeze the hand, press the flesh; bid Godspeed; speed the parting guest; cheer, serenade. |
Endearment | Bill and coo, spoon, toy, dally, flirt, coquet; gallivant, galavant; philander; make love; pay one's court to, pay one's addresses to, pay one's attentions to; serenade; court, woo; set one's cap at; be sweet upon, look sweet upon; ogle, cast sheep's eyes upon; faire les yeux doux. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Serenade |
| English words defined with "serenade": Aubade ♦ belling ♦ callathump, callithump, charivari, chivaree ♦ Serenaded, Serenading, Serenate, shivaree. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "serenade": CROPPING DRUMS ♦ whoa whoa/The Sweetest Thing. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "serenade": soiree. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Serenade" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Dutch (serenade), German (serenade). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Lyrics | I will serenade you, anyway you say (Let Me Serenade You; performing artist: Three Dog Night) The mariachis would serenade, (In Old Mexico; performing artist: Tom Lehrer) I serenade the girls with my accoustic guitar (911; performing artist: Wyclef Jean) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Why Not: A Serenade of Eschatological Ecology (1970) Serenade für zwei Spione (1965) Picnics Are Fun and Dino's Serenade (1959) Serenade (1956) Midnight Serenade (1947) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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Theater & Movies | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | The serenade. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | A woodland serenade. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Where softly sighs of love the light guitar - a Visayan-Filipino serenade. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Portrait of Violette Verdy, in Serenade. Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
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| "Fanfare 5" by Peter Franken Commentary: "A serenade by Fanfare Juliana, Limmel Maastricht." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. |
| "Serenade" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 57.14% of the time. "Serenade" is used about 56 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 57.14% | 32 | 61,292 |
| Noun (proper) | 23.21% | 13 | 97,576 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 14.29% | 8 | 124,375 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 3.57% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Noun (common) | 1.79% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 56 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "serenade"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | serenatë. (various references) | |
Arabic | لحن غرامي, عزف سيرينادا, السريناد لحن. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | свиря серенада, серенада, правя серенада, пея серенада. (various references) | |
Chinese | 小夜曲 . (various references) | |
Czech | serenáda (Charivari, nocturne), zahrát serenádu. (various references) | |
Dutch | serenade. (various references) | |
Esperanto | serenado. (various references) | |
Farsi | قطعه موسیقی عاشقانه . (various references) | |
Finnish | serenadi. (various references) | |
French | sérénade, donner une sérénade à. (various references) | |
German | Ständchen (serenaded, serenades), Serenade. (various references) | |
Greek | κάνω καντάδα, σερενάτα, νυκτωδία (nocturne), νυκτερινό υπαίθριον άσμα, πατινάδα, άδω τη νύκτα. (various references) | |
Hebrew | סרנדה. (various references) | |
Hungarian | szerenád, éjjeli zene. (various references) | |
Indonesian | rayuan musik. (various references) | |
Italian | serenata. (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | セル付 (10^-2, a center, bottle cap, celery, cellophane tape, center, centering, centi-, centimeter, centre, ceremony, facility providing funeral services, good sense, Scotch tape, select, selection, selector, selenium, sensation, sensational, sensor, stopper, with a self-starter). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | セレナード , セレナーデ . (various references) | |
Manx | serenaid, kiaull oie. (various references) | |
Papiamen | serenata. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | erenadesay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | serenata. (various references) | |
Romanian | serenadã, face o serenadã. (various references) | |
Russian | серенада. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | serenada. (various references) | |
Spanish | serenata. (various references) | |
Swedish | serenad. (various references) | |
Thai | เพลงรักในยามราตรี, บรรเลงดนตรีกล่อม. (various references) | |
Turkish | serenat, seranat yapmak. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | серенада, співати серенаду. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | serenus. (various references) |
| Italian | 900-Modern | serenata. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "serenade": serenaded, serenader, serenaders, serenades. (additional references) | |
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"Serenade" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Berenado, Estrapade, Sarandi, selenide, seranade, sereande, seremade, serenader, serenado, serenande, serender, serranid, serranidae, Strenewe. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "serenade" (pronounced se'runā"d) |
| 5 | -r u n ā" d | grenade. |
| 4 | -u n ā" d | colonnade, lemonade, promenade. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-e-e-e-n-r-s" | |
-1 letter: endears, needers, sneered. | |
-2 letters: denars, denser, earned, endear, enders, erased, neared, needer, ranees, redans, reseda, reseed, reseen, resend, sander, seared, seeder, sender, serene, snared. | |
-3 letters: aedes, dares, darns, deans, dears, deers, denar, denes, dense, drees, eared, earns, eased, ender, erase, ernes, nards, nares, nears, needs, nerds, rands, ranee, rased, reads, redan, redes, reeds. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-e-e-e-n-r-s" | |
+1 letter: deadeners, deaneries, renegades, serenaded, serenader, serenades, sneakered. | |
+2 letters: adherences, dearnesses, decenaries, denervates, greenheads, newsdealer, newsreader, reascended, refastened, renegadoes, reseasoned, serenaders. | |
+3 letters: adverseness, advertences, beardedness, calenderers, degenerates, endearments, fenestrated, generalised, learnedness, newsdealers, newspapered, newsreaders, readinesses, relatedness, relaxedness, sloganeered, unrehearsed. | |
+4 letters: advertencies, androgeneses, confederates, dappernesses, deconsecrate, defenestrate, degeneracies, deliverances, depravedness, depravements, derangements, deuteranopes, disagreement, disheartened, disseverance, dreaminesses, drearinesses, everydayness, externalised, gendarmeries, interdealers, launderettes, legerdemains, markednesses, moderateness, prebendaries, predeceasing, predesignate, predestinate, preparedness, raggednesses, readableness, sacrednesses, tragediennes, unsegregated. | |
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