serenadeverb [ T ]
uk/ˌser.əˈneɪd/us/ˌser.əˈneɪd/to play a piece of music or sing for someone, especially for a woman while standing outside her house at night:
Romeo serenades Juliet in the moonlight.
Shoppers are serenaded with live piano music.
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Playing music
- accompaniment
- accompany
- busk
- chop
- conduct
- fiddle
- fingering
- improvisation
- interpreter
- jam
- music
- perform
- raise the roof idiom
- sight-read
- strike
- strum
- swell
- tap sth out
- tickle the ivories idiom
- tune
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serenadenoun [ C ]
uk/ˌser.əˈneɪd/us/ˌser.əˈneɪd/a song or piece of music sung or played for someone
a piece of classical music in several parts:
"Moonlight Serenade"
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Musical pieces
- arrangement
- bolero
- bossa nova
- Britannia
- cantata
- fantasia
- melody
- nocturne
- octet
- opus
- passage
- playlist
- reel
- signature tune
- solo
- song form
- string quartet
- symphony
- trio
- tune
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