Songsterとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (General American) IPA: /ˈsɒŋstɚ/

名詞

songster (plural songsters)

1. A man who sings songs, especially as a profession; a male singer.
2. An adult chorister in the Salvation Army.
   • 2012, Kevin Turton, Northamptonshire Murders, page 13:

     A member of a Salvation Army family, she had been a songster accompanying the band around the streets of Chelmsford where she lived with her parents.

   • 2011, Gordon Cox, The Musical Salvationist, page 173:

     On a later occasion he returned to the theme of keeping the individuality of Salvation Army music, and resisting the temptation for songster brigades to imitate chapel and mission choirs.

3. A male songbird.
   • 1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 89:

     The woodcock, the snipe, and other nocturnal birds were all gone to rest; but the merry songsters of the wood now filled the air with their jubilee; the nutcracker began his monotonous clattering, the chaffinches and the wrens sang high in the sky, the blackcock scolded and blustered loudly, the thrush sang his mocking songs and libellous ditties about everybody, but became occasionally a little sentimental and warbled gently and bashfully some tender stanzas.

4. (formal) One who writes songs.
5. (US) A book of songs; songbook.
   • 1996, Macy Nulman, The Encyclopedia of Jewish Prayer, page 234:

     Because the Jew was often compelled to sing and dance to a fixed Mah Yafit melody at the wild orgies of the paritzim (wealthy Polish landowners), many deliberately discontinued singing Mah Yafit, thus causing the text to be removed from numerous Siddurim and songsters in the early 1900s.

派生語

• songstress

アナグラム

• Stogners