serenade

serenade

See also: Serenade, sérénade, and sérénadé

English

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).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌsɛɹəˈneɪd/

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• Rhymes: -eɪd

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.
   • 1980, Dire Straits (lyrics and music), “Romeo and Juliet”, in Making Movies:

     A lovestruck Romeo sings the streets a serenade / Laying everybody low with a love song that he made

2. (music) An instrumental composition in several movements.

   “Eine kleine Nachtmusik” is a well-known serenade written by Mozart.

Translations

love song

Breton: nozkan Bulgarian: серенада f (serenada) Catalan: serenata f Chinese: Mandarin: 小夜曲 (zh) (xiǎoyèqū) Czech: serenáda (cs) f Dutch: serenade (nl) f Esperanto: serenado Faroese: aftansongur (fo) m Finnish: serenadi (fi) French: sérénade (fr) f Galician: serenata (gl) f German: Serenade (de) f Hebrew: סֶרֶנָדָה‎ (he) f (serenáda) Italian: serenata (it) f Japanese: セレナーデ (serenāde), セレナード (serenādo), 小夜曲 (しょうやきょく, shōyakyoku, さよきょく, sayokyoku), 夜曲 (やきょく, yakyoku) Korean: 세레나데 (ko) (serenade) Macedonian: серена́да f (serenáda) Polish: serenada (pl) f Portuguese: serenata (pt) f Romanian: serenadă (ro) f Russian: серена́да (ru) f (serenáda) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: серенада f, подокница f Roman: serenada (sh) f, podoknica (sh) f Spanish: serenata f Tagalog: harana Thai: เซเรเนด Welsh: nosgan f

instrumental composition

Dutch: serenade (nl) f German: Serenade (de) f, Ständchen (de) sg Polish: serenada (pl) f

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).
   • 2013, Daniel Taylor, Rickie Lambert's debut goal gives England victory over Scotland (in The Guardian, 14 August 2013)

     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.

Translations

serenade

Bulgarian: правя серенада (pravja serenada) Finnish: esittää serenadi (+ allative) French: sérénader (fr) Latin: occentō Romanian: a cânta o serenadă Spanish: dar serenata

Further reading

• serenade on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• enseared

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Noun

serenade f (plural serenades)

1. serenade

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Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [sereˈnade]

Noun

serenade f pl

1. plural of serenadă