English Dictionary

songster

IPA（発音記号）

/ˈsɒŋstə(ɹ)/

名詞

フォーマル アメリカ英語

A man who sings songs, especially as a profession; a male singer. / A male songbird. / (formal) One who writes songs. / (US) A book of songs; songbook.

日本語の意味

歌を歌う男性、特に職業として歌う歌手 / 雄の鳥、歌うことが特徴の雄鳥 / （形式的な意味）歌を書く人物 / （米国の用法）歌集、歌本

The aging songster walked onto the small stage and captivated the crowd with a lifetime of soulful ballads.

年老いた男性歌手は小さなステージに歩み出て、長年のソウルフルなバラードで聴衆を魅了した。

意味（1）

A man who sings songs, especially as a profession; a male singer.

意味（2）

A male songbird.

The woodcock, the snipe, and other nocturnal birds were all gone to rest; but the merry songsters of the wood now filled the air with their jubilee; the nutcracker began his monotonous clattering, the chaffinches and the wrens sang high in the sky, the blackcock scolded and blustered loudly, the thrush sang his mocking songs and libellous ditties about everybody, but became occasionally a little sentimental and warbled gently and bashfully some tender stanzas.

意味（3）

(formal) One who writes songs.

意味（4）

(US) A book of songs; songbook.

Because the Jew was often compelled to sing and dance to a fixed Mah Yafit melody at the wild orgies of the paritzim (wealthy Polish landowners), many deliberately discontinued singing Mah Yafit, thus causing the text to be removed from numerous Siddurim and songsters in the early 1900s.

songsters （ plural ）