sung
For the verb: "to sing"
| Simple Past: | sang |
| Past Participle: | sung |
sung sing
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
sung/sʌŋ/
past participle of sing.
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
sing/sɪŋ/
▶verb (past sang; past part. sung)
- 1 make musical sounds with the voice, especially words with a set tune.
■ perform (a song) in this way.
■ (sing along) sing in accompaniment to a song or piece of music.
- 2 (of a bird) make characteristic melodious whistling and twittering sounds.
- 3 make a high-pitched sound.
- 4 informal act as an informer to the police.
- 5 recount or celebrate, especially in poetry.
– derivatives
singable adjective,
singer noun,
singing noun & adjective,
singingly adverb.
singable adjective,
singer noun,
singing noun & adjective,
singingly adverb.
– origin OE singan (v.), of Gmc origin.
'sung' also found in these Oxford entries:
ablaut
- a cappella
- anthem
- antiphon
- antiphonal
- barcarole
- cantata
- chant
- choral
- descant
- Dies Irae
- drinking song
- Europop
- gradual
- grand opera
- introit
- kirtan
- Kol Nidre
- lay
- limerick
- lullaby
- melic
- melisma
- monody
- neume
- ode
- organum
- parabasis
- plainsong
- prosody
- psalm
- recessional
- responsory
- Salve Regina
- sequence
- serenade
- shanty
- sing
- sonata
- surtitle
- swansong
- talking blues
- tap
- Te Deum
- trill
- unaccompanied
- versicle
- vocal

