[
UK
/sˈɒŋstɐ/
]
NOUN
- a person who sings
- any bird having a musical call
- a composer of words or music for popular songs
How To Use songster In A Sentence
- In its native habitat, the Canary Islands, the bird is a nondescript greenish songster with a melodious warble.
- This is mostly true for fans, friends, and family of unsung folk hero Tim Hardin, the prolific songster who wasted his life living wasted.
- Barlow turned his face to where the songster was perched in the top branches of a wild-fig, and Bootea, said in a low voice: "Sahib, it is said that the shama is a soul come back to earth to sing of love that men may not grow harsh. Caste
- Based on the subject lines of e-mail spam featuring songs by like-minded Web songsters, it may help pave the way for a new brand of musician who can rock your world without ever leaving the basement.
- Let the shade of blind Homer be called up to say whether the bard who composed the tremendous line — “Surgit ad hos clypei dominus septemplicis Ajax” — equal to any save ONE of his own, was a mere amatory songster. Wild Wales : Its People, Language and Scenery
- The packed programme started shortly after 8 pm with Edwards, who shot to fame in the 1980s, making a special appearance together with local songster Indar Kanhai.
- For all this, In the Belly of a Whale doesn't really hint at the disheveled songster I remember from Folk Fest.
- Woody Guthrie was one of a long line of folk songsters going back at least to Joe Hill, identifying with the poor and exploited.
- Behold the songster at work - a process found in early Armstrong, Guthrie and Robert Johnson.
- When political songsters talk of this kind of change, they are often referring to the imputed ability of songs to help ‘educate’ people.