as in lullaby
a vocal or instrumental performance that is given outdoors at night for a lover
wooed his lady with a serenade
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Recent Examples of serenade
Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 3 Sep. 2025
The clip opened with a mariachi band serenading the women.
—Catherine Santino, People.com, 29 Aug. 2025
Charna Flam, People.com, 7 Aug. 2025
Graduates wore white caps and gowns and, before accepting their diplomas, treated their families to a sock puppet serenade.
—Michael Cuglietta, The Orlando Sentinel, 2 June 2025
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Noun
In December 2006, Taylor Swift spent around three hours serenading a crowd of about 45 people at Jeff Jarrett’s home in Tennessee.
—Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 3 Sep. 2025
The clip opened with a mariachi band serenading the women.
—Catherine Santino, People.com, 29 Aug. 2025
Verb
Daisy sat behind a red curtain and performed a small serenade with help from her lion puppet.
—Charna Flam, People.com, 7 Aug. 2025
Graduates wore white caps and gowns and, before accepting their diplomas, treated their families to a sock puppet serenade.
—Michael Cuglietta, The Orlando Sentinel, 2 June 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for serenade
Noun
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Very tricky, because this was a lullaby version of the song, rather than the original one (which opens with a piano sequence).—
Kris Holt,
Forbes.com,
8 Sep. 2025
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Melanie's artistry from Greenwich Village to Woodstock to lullabies For Melanie, creativity occupied the broadest and most all-encompassing spectrum.—
Marcus K. Dowling,
The Tennessean,
21 Aug. 2025
Verb
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Mark croons and strums campfire acoustic.—
Jonathan Terrell,
Rolling Stone,
23 Sep. 2025
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Director Scott Cooper gave Jeff Bridges a platform to country croon his way to an Academy Award for Crazy Heart, which is enough to ignite the Oscar hopes for White, who while quite good in 2023’s The Iron Claw nevertheless doesn’t possess Bridges’ decades of goodwill.—
Vulture Staff,
Vulture,
23 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Immediately after, the rest of the group will join in, echoing the chant and mimicking the caller's action.—
Juliana Kim,
NPR,
5 Oct. 2025
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Then the Canes fell behind early — their first deficit all season as that Tomahawk Chop chant serenaded the night.—
Miami Herald,
Miami Herald,
5 Oct. 2025
Verb
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The track begins with Winter’s distinct vocals warbling and wobbling over a tender percussion groove.—
Jon Blistein,
Rolling Stone,
8 July 2025
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The famous John Williams fanfare that blasted Star Wars onto our screens had appreciably less impact than even a standard screen would now offer, let alone IMAX and Dolby Cinema premium offerings while at some parts of the film, the sound warbled a little, before returning to normal.—
Benny Har-Even,
Forbes.com,
13 June 2025
Verb
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The blast furnace of volcanoes has fallen silent, replaced by birdsong trilling from the branches and echoing through a garden of exotic stone.—
Roger Naylor,
AZCentral.com,
29 Aug. 2025
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Expect to marvel at saddles blanketed in blueberries and multi-hued wildflowers, marmots trilling their warnings, ibex perched on rocky spines, and neon critters that wiggle and hop underfoot.—
Wendy Altschuler,
Forbes.com,
16 Aug. 2025
Noun
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During the past decade, Tranter has established himself as one of the music industry’s most reliable hitmakers, thanks to his clever, boisterous lyricism and dramatic, over-the-top choruses and hooks.—
Ethan Millman,
HollywoodReporter,
1 Oct. 2025
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And that’s really the chorus of The Fighter.—
Ingrid Vasquez,
PEOPLE,
1 Oct. 2025
Verb
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Is there a way to keep your knives sharp longer? A.—
BestReviews,
Mercury News,
9 Sep. 2025
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Why would sharp-as-nails med school grads opt toward a presumably dead-end occupational route?—
Lance Eliot,
Forbes.com,
4 Aug. 2025
Noun
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Even on tour, fans go expecting dramatic catharsis to be undergirding all that glee.—
Chris Willman,
Variety,
3 Oct. 2025
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Confetti canons shot out glittering rainbows, and Derevjanik began to dance around, shouting in glee.—
Ryan Coleman,
Entertainment Weekly,
1 Oct. 2025
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“Serenade.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/serenade. Accessed 7 Oct. 2025.
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