sing
/ˈsɪŋ/
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.54 in modern English
5
Scrabble Score
4
Letters
1
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To rejoice.
Example Sentences
- ""I really want to sing in the school choir," said Vera."
- "And they sung as it were a new song before the throne, and before the four beasts, and the elders, and no man could learn that song but the hundred and forty and four thousand, which were redeemed from the earth."
- "sing a lullaby"
- "In the lightness of my heart I sang catches of songs as my horse gayly bore me along the well-remembered road."
- "to sing somebody to sleep"
- "I do but sing because I must, And pipe but as the linnets sing: And unto one her note is gay, For now her little ones have ranged; And unto one her note is changed, Because her brood is stol’n away."
Etymology
From Middle English singen, from Old English singan (“to sing”), from Proto-West Germanic *singwan, from Proto-Germanic *singwaną (“to sing”), from Proto-Indo-European *sengʷʰ- (“to recite, sing”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian sjunge (“to sing”), West Frisian sjonge (“to sing”), Dutch zingen (“to sing”), German Low German singen (“to sing”), German singen (“to sing”), Danish and Norwegian Bokmål synge (“to sing”), Swedish sjunga (“to sing”), Norwegian Nynorsk, Faroese, and Icelandic syngja (“to sing”), Ancient Greek ὀμφή (omphḗ, “voice, oracle”).
Origin
Word Breakdown
Usage
Subject
Wiktionary places this term in Law, Music, Botany.
Inflected Forms
sings (present, singular)
singing (participle, present)
sang (past)
sung (past)
sung (participle, past)
sungen (archaic, participle)
no-table-tags (table tags)
glossary (inflection template)
sang (first person, past)
sung (dialectal, first person)
singest (archaic, present)
sang (past, second person)