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/ˌsɛɹəˈneɪd/ · noun
A love song that is sung directly to one's love interest, especially one performed below the window of a loved one in the evening..
From me to thee glad serenades, / Dances for thee I propose saluting thee, adornments and feastings for thee, / And the sights of the open landscape and the high-spread sky are fitting, / And life and the fields, and the huge and thoughtful night.
A lovestruck Romeo sings the streets a serenade / Laying everybody low with a love song that he made
“Eine kleine Nachtmusik” is a well-known serenade written by Mozart.
The Southampton striker, who also struck a post late on, was being serenaded by the Wembley crowd before the end and should probably brace himself for some Lambert-mania over the coming days but, amid the eulogies, it should not overlook the deficiencies that were evident in another stodgy England performance.
Use serenade when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Serenade means A love song that is sung directly to one's love interest, especially one performed below the window of a loved one in the evening..
Common synonyms include divertimento.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
From me to thee glad serenades, / Dances for thee I propose saluting thee, adornments and feastings for thee, / And the sights of the open landscape and the high-spread sky are fitting, / And life and the fields, and the huge and thoughtful night.
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