chansons

noun

plural of chanson
as in motets

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for chansons
  1. arias
  2. ballads
  3. ditties
  4. choruses
  5. standards
  6. serenades
  7. songs
  8. carols
Noun
  • The machine’s repertoire included answers to 12 riddles, passages from books, and laughing, crying and kissing sounds, as well as arias sung in both male and female voices—all feats that Edison’s phonograph would one day be able to accomplish by recording and playing back the human voice.
    — Ron Cowen, Scientific American, 3 June 2026
  • Notable coloratura arias Coloratura arias are found in the works of Mozart, George Frideric Handel, and many other classical composers.
    — René Ostberg, Encyclopedia Britannica, 26 May 2026
Definition of arias
Noun
  • These standout ballads touted a rugged lifestyle with elements of organized crime, which aided his primo’s ascent to the mainstream.
    — Andrea Flores, Los Angeles Times, 7 July 2026
  • These songs were less detailed than the ballads but conveyed intense emotion gleaned from an often hardscrabble existence.
    — Ted Olson, The Conversation, 2 July 2026
Definition of ballads
Noun
  • But, as with effectively a new group needing to gel, time was always going to be required for heroes to emerge and inspire terrace chants to replace or supplement the ditties to ‘Super Paul Mullin’, ‘White Pele’ (Elliot Lee) et al.
    — Richard Sutcliffe, New York Times, 6 May 2026
  • The songs, by Randy Newman, are simple but charming little ditties, particularly the ensemble numbers where this makeshift band of misfits express their devotion to one another.
    — Wilson Chapman, IndieWire, 10 Apr. 2026
Definition of ditties
Noun
  • Paired with bubbly disco grooves and chant-along choruses, the band became gay icons overnight.
    — Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 1 July 2026
  • Notorious Knicks villains such as Trae Young, Joel Embiid and CJ McCollum received similarly contentious choruses in recent postseasons.
    — Peter Sblendorio, New York Daily News, 10 June 2026
Definition of choruses
Noun
  • But male-beauty standards have risen markedly during the past decade or so.
    — Jia Tolentino, New Yorker, 11 July 2026
  • Loeb says the group is focused on evidence, instrumentation, data analysis and collection standards.
    — Leonard David, Space.com, 11 July 2026
Definition of standards
Noun
  • Scrolling SoundCloud the other week, I was reminded of the Blackberry arguments, email apologies, and voicemail serenades of the Heartbreak Drake era.
    — Alphonse Pierre, Pitchfork, 14 May 2026
  • Clips from the Pitt-Stanford game spread rapidly on Bluesky, where multiple users captured separate free-throw serenades and posted them individually.
    — Ryan Brennan, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 11 Mar. 2026
Definition of serenades
Noun
  • Produced again by the classic-rocker whisperer Andrew Watt (Paul McCartney, Elton John, Pearl Jam), the band delivers a clutch of strong songs.
    — Marc Ballon, Los Angeles Times, 10 July 2026
  • But we writers of historical fiction should never forget, in our focus on the vast sweep of time and change, that the symphony itself is composed of lots of little songs.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 10 July 2026
Definition of songs
Noun
  • Paul drove into Wilkes-Barre from Princeton on Christmas Day after the chapel service and dropped his bags at a forlorn motor lodge on Public Square—Christmas carols dragging at slow speed on its sound system—and swung by my parents.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 18 June 2026
  • That's4Entertainment's Christmas Con 2026 will take place at the New Jersey Expo Center in Edison, New Jersey, from December 11-13, and its halls will be decked to the gills with carols, tree lightings and sweet treats.
    — Breanne L. Heldman, PEOPLE, 11 June 2026
Definition of carols
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