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The meaning of SERENADE is a complimentary vocal or instrumental performance; especially : one given outdoors at night for a woman being courted. How to use serenade in a sentence.
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In the oldest usage, which survives in informal form to the present day, a serenade is a musical greeting performed for a lover, friend, person of rank or other person to be honored. The classic usage would be from a lover to his lady love through a window.
serenade. noun [ C ] us / ˌser.əˈneɪd / uk / ˌser.əˈneɪd /. a song or piece of music sung or played for someone. a piece of classical music in several parts: "Moonlight Serenade". SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases. Musical pieces. arrangement.
serenade in British English. (ˌsɛrɪˈneɪd ) noun. 1. a piece of music appropriate to the evening, characteristically played outside the house of a woman. 2. a piece of music indicative or suggestive of this. 3. an extended composition in several movements similar to the modern suite or divertimento.
serenade, originally, a nocturnal song of courtship, and later, beginning in the late 18th century, a short suite of instrumental pieces, similar to the divertimento, cassation, and notturno.
When you serenade someone, you play or sing a song, often outdoors. In Italian, serenata means "an evening song," and the noun serenade is a tune played or sung, either for one specific person or for a larger audience, outside.
