Undersong
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Undersong is a noun meaning An accompanying sound or strain; an accompaniment.
Meaning
An accompanying sound or strain; an accompaniment.
More Meanings
- (figuratively) Subordinate and underlying idea, meaning or atmosphere; undertone.
- (obsolete) The burden of a song; the chorus; the refrain.
Example Sentences
But th’ unceasing rill To the soft Wren or Lark’s descending trill Murmurs sweet undersong mid jasmin bowers.
Accept the Off'ring I at diſtance bring, / With Harp ill-tun'd, and long thro' Age unſtrung, / Fit only to fill up ſome Under-ſong!
Even if Boswell had never written the Life, we would remember Johnson’s personality, which is the undersong of everything he wrote and said.
To sit without emotion, hope, or aim, / By my half-kitchen my half-parlour fire, / And listen to the flapping of the flame, / Or kettle, whispering it's faint undersong.
Word Forms
- undersongs
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include accompanying, accompaniment, unisonance, unison, counterline, accord.
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