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单词 serenade
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Definition of serenade in English:

serenade

noun sɛrəˈneɪdˌsɛrəˈneɪd
  • 1A piece of music sung or played in the open air, typically by a man at night under the window of his beloved.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • When it comes to impressing your future someone, no amount of borrowed tunes can beat a handmade serenade.
    • At the end of the meal he surprised her with a serenade by a gentleman who sang something French to her.
    • Ross did ask him to discontinue an impromptu serenade of Terri, who was embarrassed and upset by her ex-husband singing love songs to her over the plane's microphone.
    • It makes me melancholy sometimes to think of such things, and my friends try to cheer me up with impromptu concerts and serenades at my window.
    • When she emerges fresh faced and sleepy from below deck after a night of passion, greeted by a serenade from the crew, it took my breath away.
    • He is on his way to your place, right now: expect strumming and moonlit serenades outside bedroom windows.
    • She was physically fragile but he turned on the charm: dancing, chats, moonlight serenades outside her hotel window.
    • Maybe sing me a serenade and beg for my forgiveness again.
    • No more gilt harpsichords or violin serenades played to me from outside my bedroom window.
    • The rondalla, a traditional music ensemble, consists of plucked and bowed string instruments to accompany social dancing and suitors' serenades.
    • Whisper sweet nothings in her ear, enchant her with roses and a serenade and woo her and make her swoon.
    • She had chosen ‘Morning Has Broken’ for her serenade.
    • You need to tell us how you were reciting epic poetry, and making her swoon with a beautiful serenade!
    • This story is not, and I repeat NOT a romantic fairy tale where the prince brings the princess flowers and serenades her from beneath the bay window of her bedroom.
    • And then of course, there are the public ordinances forbidding off-key driveway serenades.
    1. 1.1
      another term for serenata
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Each chapter is presented as a scene, with the characters delivering arias, serenades or laments - again with a modern touch.
      • What more pleasure can there be than putting sound to Mozart in these elegant serenades?
      • Rochberg's finale, which he calls an alternation between scherzos and serenades, introduces another borrowed style, this time Mahler in rapturous D major starting just over two minutes into the movement.
      • The Romance, from 1929, was originally going to be part of a string serenade.
      • In the 18th century a serenade was a piece of instrumental music of up to ten movements, scored for a small ensemble, usually with a predominance of wind instruments.
      • We have already had excellent accounts of Beethoven and Mozart symphonies and serenades and now it is the turn of some exquisite Haydn and Schubert symphonies.
      • The Serenade for Strings contains also a delectable waltz.
      • It features two serenades for strings, by Dvorák and Elgar, preceded by Grieg's Holberg Suite.
      • It's a compilation of two night-themed serenades by Mozart, a ‘toy symphony’ by his father, and three Mozart-inspired works by composers from the former Soviet Union.
      • His seventh and eighth symphonies get an occasional airing, as do the serenade for strings and the robust violin concerto.
verb sɛrəˈneɪdˌsɛrəˈneɪd
[with object]
  • Entertain (someone) with a serenade.

    a strolling guitarist serenades the diners
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Blue serenades Alice, mouthing the words of the song and eventually Alice joins in, singing Juliet's words.
    • No longer would courtly ladies be gently serenaded by love-struck balladeers - The Taming Of The Shrew threw out any notion of wooing and replaced it with a more martial one.
    • If it is a love song, then he might be serenading that friend of his.
    • I wasn't standing outside his house everyday serenading him with gushy love songs.
    • And many of the new singers are serenading him in style.
    • I'd told him on our first date that the most romantic thing to me would be having a guy that couldn't sing serenade me.
    • Traveling minstrels serenaded their clients with bawdy or heroic tales set to music.
    • There was Larry, the man with no teeth and no hair but a lovely voice, who enjoyed serenading anyone who'd listen.
    • I couldn't have felt more ecstatic if the heavens had opened up and serenaded me with a chorus of angelic voices.
    • A band member got an extra special birthday treat when his fellow musicians marched up his street and serenaded him.
    • Smitten, Freddy later haunts Higgins' house and serenades Eliza with the beautiful melody, ‘On the Street Where you Live’.
    • The scene in which Christie Smith tinkles the keyboard and serenades Mel in his club goes nowhere and adds nothing to the plot.

Derivatives

  • serenader

  • noun ˌsɛrəˈneɪdəˌsɛrəˈneɪdər
    • A birthday cake plus suitable serenaders were supplied in honour of the birthday of Peter, who was overwhelmed by the whole affair.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • The men of the choir are the serenaders and the police officers; more time should have been devoted to blending their sound.
      • You can walk along manicured lawns with free roaming peacocks, experience the luxury of a gourmet meal complete with table-side serenaders, or find a private little jazz salon with an intimate dance floor seemingly made for two.
      • However, in both cases it is the serenader who, not being the right lover (and therefore in some way ‘false’), is unable to harness that power.
      • When the Swedish serenader and ukelelist played some intimate shows back in May, a lot of people were hearing him for the first time.

Origin

Mid 17th century: from French sérénade, from Italian serenata, from sereno 'serene'.

  • A serenade conjures up an image of a young man singing or playing to his beloved under her window or balcony at night. The word's origins imply none of these things, requiring only that the performance be ‘serene’. It goes back through French and Italian to Latin serenus ‘calm, clear, fair’. The idea of serenading by night may derive from association with sera, the Italian word for ‘night’. Serenus is also the source of serene and serenity [both LME].

Rhymes

abrade, afraid, aid, aide, ambuscade, arcade, balustrade, barricade, Belgrade, blade, blockade, braid, brigade, brocade, cannonade, carronade, cascade, cavalcade, cockade, colonnade, crusade, dissuade, downgrade, enfilade, esplanade, evade, fade, fusillade, glade, grade, grenade, grillade, handmade, harlequinade, homemade, invade, jade, lade, laid, lemonade, limeade, made, maid, man-made, marinade, masquerade, newlaid, orangeade, paid, palisade, parade, pasquinade, persuade, pervade, raid, shade, Sinéad, staid, stockade, stock-in-trade, suede, tailor-made, they'd, tirade, trade, Ubaid, underpaid, undismayed, unplayed, unsprayed, unswayed, upbraid, upgrade, wade
 
 

Definition of serenade in US English:

serenade

nounˌserəˈnādˌsɛrəˈneɪd
  • 1A piece of music sung or played in the open air, typically by a man at night under the window of his lover.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • The rondalla, a traditional music ensemble, consists of plucked and bowed string instruments to accompany social dancing and suitors' serenades.
    • He is on his way to your place, right now: expect strumming and moonlit serenades outside bedroom windows.
    • Whisper sweet nothings in her ear, enchant her with roses and a serenade and woo her and make her swoon.
    • You need to tell us how you were reciting epic poetry, and making her swoon with a beautiful serenade!
    • When it comes to impressing your future someone, no amount of borrowed tunes can beat a handmade serenade.
    • It makes me melancholy sometimes to think of such things, and my friends try to cheer me up with impromptu concerts and serenades at my window.
    • When she emerges fresh faced and sleepy from below deck after a night of passion, greeted by a serenade from the crew, it took my breath away.
    • No more gilt harpsichords or violin serenades played to me from outside my bedroom window.
    • At the end of the meal he surprised her with a serenade by a gentleman who sang something French to her.
    • Ross did ask him to discontinue an impromptu serenade of Terri, who was embarrassed and upset by her ex-husband singing love songs to her over the plane's microphone.
    • Maybe sing me a serenade and beg for my forgiveness again.
    • This story is not, and I repeat NOT a romantic fairy tale where the prince brings the princess flowers and serenades her from beneath the bay window of her bedroom.
    • She was physically fragile but he turned on the charm: dancing, chats, moonlight serenades outside her hotel window.
    • She had chosen ‘Morning Has Broken’ for her serenade.
    • And then of course, there are the public ordinances forbidding off-key driveway serenades.
    1. 1.1
      another term for serenata
      Example sentencesExamples
      • The Serenade for Strings contains also a delectable waltz.
      • The Romance, from 1929, was originally going to be part of a string serenade.
      • It features two serenades for strings, by Dvorák and Elgar, preceded by Grieg's Holberg Suite.
      • In the 18th century a serenade was a piece of instrumental music of up to ten movements, scored for a small ensemble, usually with a predominance of wind instruments.
      • It's a compilation of two night-themed serenades by Mozart, a ‘toy symphony’ by his father, and three Mozart-inspired works by composers from the former Soviet Union.
      • His seventh and eighth symphonies get an occasional airing, as do the serenade for strings and the robust violin concerto.
      • Each chapter is presented as a scene, with the characters delivering arias, serenades or laments - again with a modern touch.
      • Rochberg's finale, which he calls an alternation between scherzos and serenades, introduces another borrowed style, this time Mahler in rapturous D major starting just over two minutes into the movement.
      • We have already had excellent accounts of Beethoven and Mozart symphonies and serenades and now it is the turn of some exquisite Haydn and Schubert symphonies.
      • What more pleasure can there be than putting sound to Mozart in these elegant serenades?
verbˌserəˈnādˌsɛrəˈneɪd
[with object]
  • Entertain (someone) with a serenade.

    a strolling guitarist serenades the diners
    Example sentencesExamples
    • I couldn't have felt more ecstatic if the heavens had opened up and serenaded me with a chorus of angelic voices.
    • And many of the new singers are serenading him in style.
    • A band member got an extra special birthday treat when his fellow musicians marched up his street and serenaded him.
    • I'd told him on our first date that the most romantic thing to me would be having a guy that couldn't sing serenade me.
    • The scene in which Christie Smith tinkles the keyboard and serenades Mel in his club goes nowhere and adds nothing to the plot.
    • Blue serenades Alice, mouthing the words of the song and eventually Alice joins in, singing Juliet's words.
    • I wasn't standing outside his house everyday serenading him with gushy love songs.
    • Traveling minstrels serenaded their clients with bawdy or heroic tales set to music.
    • Smitten, Freddy later haunts Higgins' house and serenades Eliza with the beautiful melody, ‘On the Street Where you Live’.
    • If it is a love song, then he might be serenading that friend of his.
    • No longer would courtly ladies be gently serenaded by love-struck balladeers - The Taming Of The Shrew threw out any notion of wooing and replaced it with a more martial one.
    • There was Larry, the man with no teeth and no hair but a lovely voice, who enjoyed serenading anyone who'd listen.

Origin

Mid 17th century: from French sérénade, from Italian serenata, from sereno ‘serene’.

 
 
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