Song in spanish
pronunciation: kɑnθioʊn part of speech: noun
song = canción, cantar.
Example: Songs, poems, fingergames and picture books are shared with parents and their young children, from infancy to age 3.more:
» a song and dance routine = actuación de canción y baile.
Example: Shakespeare's great and all, but nothing beats a song and dance routine with animals.» bird-song = canto de los pájaros.
Example: For example, the child doing a project about birds will require books to give him background information, a record or cassette to let him hear a bird-song, and a film to help him to appreciate bird flight.» buy + Nombre + for a song = comprar por cuatro perras, comprar por cuatro duros, comprar casi regalado, comprar casi tirado, comprar por casi nada.
Example: Most of them had been foreclosed, and she bought them for a song, often just for the unpaid taxes.» catchy song = canción pegadiza.
Example: The show, with its mixture of catchy songs and slick choreography, was a triumphant success.» do + a song and dance = hacer el pino con las orejas.
Example: I've become an entertainer -- I have to do a song and dance to capture my students' attention.» do + a song and dance routine = cantar y bailar.
Example: I was about sixteen when I teamed up with my father to do a song and dance routine in local night clubs.» drinking song = canción para brindar, canción de taberna. [Canción compuesta para acompañar la bebida y brindar y que en el siglo diecinueve se cantaba en las operetas]
Example: The author outline of the history of circus music and drinking songs in the US, accompanied by a bibliography.» Eurovision Song Contest = Festival de Eurovisión.
Example: British septuagenarian crooner Engelbert Humperdinck will represent the United Kingdom at this year's Eurovision Song Contest.» folk song = canción folclórica.
Example: Recordings of local dialects, folk songs and languages falling into disuse are other uses of what might be termed electronic manuscript records.» get + Nombre + for a song = conseguir por cuatro perras, conseguir por cuatro duros, conseguir casi regalado, conseguir casi tirado, conseguir por casi nada.
Example: The two books were old and ratty, and he had got them for a song -- twenty bucks.» give + Nombre + a song and dance = soltar una excusa, largar una excusa.
Example: I didn't give her a song and dance or get on my hands and knees begging for forgivenes.» go for + a song = venderse por cuatro perras, venderse por cuatro duros, venderse casi regalado, estar casi regalado, venderse casi tirado, estar casi tirado, venderse por casi nada.
Example: They went for a song last fall but now seem to be as scarce as hen's teeth.» gospel song = espiritual negro.
Example: There is now an even better (or worse) example that supplants rock music as the classical example of, not cultural lag, but musical lag, and that's GOSPEL MUSIC or gospel songs, which has just now been established.» group song = canción en grupo, canción grupal.
Example: The trend of having a group song during your wedding ceremony is a fast growing one.» hit song = canción famosa.
Example: Some people criticize this music band but yet this is a really famous music band with a good number of hits songs.» in sing-song = con una voz cantarina.
Example: The reading aloud was performed in a conventionalized sing-song.» make + a song and dance about = celebrar por todo lo alto, celebrar a lo grande, hacer muchos aspavientos por Algo, celebrar a bombo y platillo.
Example: But nobody knows that because Ford don't make a song and dance about everything they work on or develop.» popular song = canción popular.
Example: Barnes uses a combination of spirituals, popular and protest songs that were adapted to introduce, review, or heighten students' interest in the 1950s and 1960s.» protest song = canción protesta, canción de protesta.
Example: Barnes uses a combination of spirituals, popular and protest songs that were adapted to introduce, review, or heighten students' interest in the 1950s and 1960s.» romantic song = canción romántica.
Example: We already knew these Irish lads were among the best boy bands out there, but they really hit it out of the park with this romantic song.» sell + Nombre + for a song = vender por cuatro perras, vender por cuatro duros, vender por cuatro reales, vender casi regalado, vender casi tirado, vender por casi nada.
Example: I sold them for a song compared to what they go for now.» sing song = canción cantada en tono cantarín. [Especialmente cantadas cuando la gente está en grupo y en las que participa todo el mundo]
Example: An exhibition presenting different aspects of life in and around Darlington during the period 1900-1950 was mounted and events such as sing songs for elderly people, demonstrations of domestic crafts, and historical talks took place.» siren song = atracción peligrosa.
Example: Administrators all too easily fall prey to the siren song of cost reduction, especially if phrases like innovation are employed as harmonic accompaniment.» songbird = ruiseñor, pájaro cantor.
Example: The system is also being used to record and identify the nocturnal calls of migrating songbirds through eastern North America.» songbook = cancionero.
Example: When new songbooks arrive in the library they are set aside until indexing is completed.» song cover = versión de canción. [Versión de una canción interpretada por un artista diferente del que la hizo famosa]
Example: Hey everyone, I'm looking for people's opinions on a song cover that I just finished working on.» song lyrics = letra de canción.
Example: This music server provides access to a large database of song lyrics and melodies.» Song of Solomon, the = Cantar de Salomón, el. [También llamado the Song of Songs [el Cantar de los Cantares]]
Example: Secondly, the verses cited in the Song of Solomon refer to the lover (whether it was Solomon or not) being dark and suntanned -- not black.» Song of Songs, the = Cantar de los Cantares, el. [También llamado the Song of Solomon [el Cantar de Salomón]]
Example: The Song of Songs is enigmatic because it has no unambiguous reference to God, religion, or spiritual things.» songwriter [song writer] = autor de canciones, compositor de canciones, escritor de canciones.
Example: It is an engagingly rhapsodical book devoted to the poet Rimbaud, to songwriter and rock musician Morrison, and to Fowlie himself.» songwriting [song-writing] = composición de canciones, componer canciones.
Example: This paper profiles about 70 significant American popular songwriting teams from about 1900 to about 1960 together with their more important works.» torch song = canción de amor. [Generalmente de amor no correspondido]
Example: When she spots him with his new flame while she's singing torch songs in a cheap shanty, she tries to win him back.