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songster

DEFINITIONS OF: songster

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n a person who sings

Types:
songstress
a woman songster (especially of popular songs)
Type of:
singer, vocaliser, vocalist, vocalizer
a person who sings

n a composer of words or music for popular songs

Synonyms:
ballad maker, songwriter
Examples:
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Irving Berlin
United States songwriter (born in Russia) who wrote more than 1500 songs and several musical comedies (1888-1989)
Hoagland Howard Carmichael
United States songwriter (1899-1981)
George Michael Cohan
United States songwriter and playwright famous for his patriotic songs (1878-1942)
Antoine Domino
United States rhythm and blues pianist and singer and composer (born in 1928)
Bob Dylan
United States songwriter noted for his protest songs (born in 1941)
Stephen Collins Foster
United States songwriter whose songs embody the sentiment of the South before the American Civil War (1826-1864)
Woodrow Wilson Guthrie
United States folk singer and songwriter (1912-1967)
Charles Hardin Holley
United States rock star (1936-1959)
John Lennon
English rock star and guitarist and songwriter who with Paul McCartney wrote most of the music for the Beatles (1940-1980)
Sir James Paul McCartney
English rock star and bass guitarist and songwriter who with John Lennon wrote most of the music for the Beatles (born in 1942)
Paul Simon
United States singer and songwriter (born in 1942)
Hiram King Williams
United States country singer and songwriter (1923-1953)
Type of:
composer
someone who composes music as a profession

n any bird having a musical call

Synonyms:
songbird
Type of:
oscine, oscine bird
passerine bird having specialized vocal apparatus
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