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How to pronounce serenade in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms divertimento
Type of composition, piece, piece of music, opus, musical composition
Type Words
Type of vocal, song
Has types belling, callathump, callithump, charivari, chivaree, shivaree
Type Words
Type of do, execute, perform


She was serenaded by her admirers.

Examples of serenade

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What results, however, is a quiet, elegiac Crescent City serenade for the times.
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By mid-Match, male spring peepers serenade females to entice them to the pools.
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We raised our faces towards the tree tops and launched into a wolfish serenade.
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Then it was just the grasshopper and cricket chorus that was summer's serenade.
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Two musicians play guitars and serenade diners Thursday through Sunday nights.
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It was a sweet sound to serenade the Dutchmen as practice wrapped up Thursday.
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How about setting up your iPod or MP3 player to serenade you with some mushy tunes?
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Local musicians serenade clients at the brasseries lining place Michel Debre.
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The classic serenade usage would be from a lover to his lady love through a window.
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  • Divertimento: a musical composition in several movements; has no fixed form
  • Sing and play for somebody; "She was serenaded by her admirers"
  • A song characteristically played outside the house of a woman
  • In music, a serenade (or sometimes serenata) is, in its most general sense, a musical composition, and/or performance, in someone's honor. Serenades are typically calm, light music. In fact, the word Serenade is derived from the word sereno, which means calm.
  • Neil Diamond's second album for Columbia Records, Serenade was released in 1974. Three singles were lifted from the album: "Longfellow Serenade" (#5), "I've Been This Way Before" (#34) and "The Last Picasso". The album was also issued as a quadraphonic LP with some songs as alternate takes.
  • Serenade is a ballet by George Balanchine, subsequently co-founder and balletmaster of New York City Ballet, to Tschaikovsky's 1880 Serenade for Strings in C, Op. 48. ...
  • The Serenade for Strings in E minor, Op. 20, is a piece for string orchestra in three short movements, by Edward Elgar.
  • Serenade, a 1956 Warner Bros. release, was tenor Mario Lanza's fifth film, and his first on-screen appearance in four years. Directed by Anthony Mann and based on the 1937 novel of the same name by James M. ...
  • Serenade is the fourth album by Welsh mezzo-soprano Katherine Jenkins, released on 6 November 2006, in the UK. It charted at number 5 on the UK Albums Chart"". everyhit.co.uk. Retrieved 4 December 2006. and at number 1 on the UK Classical Album Chart.