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Dictionary: song·ster   (sông'stər, sŏng'-) pronunciation
n.
    1. One who sings.
    2. See songwriter.
  1. A songbird.

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An African-American musician of the post-Reconstruction era who performed a wide variety of ballads, dance-tunes, reels and minstrel songs, singing to his own banjo or guitar accompaniment. Songsters were sometimes accompanied by ‘musicianers’, or non-singing string players.



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The noun has 3 meanings:

Meaning #1: a composer of words or music for popular songs
  Synonyms: songwriter, ballad maker

Meaning #2: a person who sings

Meaning #3: any bird having a musical call
  Synonym: songbird


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Dansk (Danish)
n. - sanger, digter, sangbog, visebog

Nederlands (Dutch)
zanger

Français (French)
n. - chanteur

Deutsch (German)
n. - Sänger, Liederbuch

Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - τραγουδιστής, ωδικό πτηνό, τραγουδοποιός

Italiano (Italian)
cantante

Português (Portuguese)
n. - cantor (m), bardo (m), poeta (m)

Русский (Russian)
(эстрадный) певец, (эстрадная) певица, певунья, поэт-песенник, сборник песен, певчая птица

Español (Spanish)
n. - cantor, cantante, poeta, pájaro cantor

Svenska (Swedish)
n. - sångare

中文(简体)(Chinese (Simplified))
歌手, 诗人, 作曲者

中文(繁體)(Chinese (Traditional))
n. - 歌手, 詩人, 作曲者

한국어 (Korean)
n. - 가수 , 노래 작자, 우는 새

日本語 (Japanese)
n. - 歌手, 鳴鳥, 流行歌手, 詩人, 作詞家, 歌集, 歌人

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(الاسم) طائر غريد, شاعر, ناظم ألاغاني, ألمغني‏

עברית (Hebrew)
n. - ‮זמר, משורר, ציפור-שיר‬


 
 
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