noun
Meaning 1
A book containing songs.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
songbook
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Pronunciation
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noun
Meaning 2
a book containing a collection of songs
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: book
Narrower terms: hymnal, hymnbook, hymnary
History
Etymology
From Middle English song boke, from Old English sangbōc (“a music book; songbook”), equivalent to song + book. Compare Saterland Frisian Songbouk (“songbook”), West Frisian sjongboek (“songbook”), Dutch zangboek (“songbook”), German Low German Sangbook (“songbook; hymnbook; hymnal”), German Gesangbuch (“songbook; hymnbook; hymnal”), Danish sangbog (“songbook”), Swedish sångbok (“songbook”), Faroese songbók (“songbook”), Icelandic söngbók (“songbook”).
Across languages
Translations
37 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Armenian: երգարան (ergaran) — book
- Asturian: cancioneru — book
- Bulgarian: песнопойка (pesnopojka) — book
- Catalan: cançoner — book
- Chinese Mandarin: 歌曲集 (gēqǔjí) — book
- Chinese Mandarin: 歌本 (gēběn) — book
- Chinese Mandarin: 歌集 (gējí) — book
- Czech: zpěvník — book
- Danish: sangbog — book
- Dutch: liedboek — book
- Estonian: laulik — book
- Finnish: laulukirja — book
- French: chansonnier — book
- Galician: cancioneiro — book
- German: Liederbuch — book
- Hungarian: énekeskönyv — book
- Irish: leabhar amhrán — book
- Italian: canzoniere — book
- Japanese: 歌集 (kashū) — book
- Japanese: ソングブック (songubukku) — book
- Japanese: 唱歌集 (shōkashū) — book
- Korean: 노래책 (noraechaek) — book
- Korean: 가요집 (gayojip) — book
- Kumyk: йыр китап (yır kitap) — book
- Macedonian: песнарка (pesnarka) — book
- Norwegian Bokmål: sangbok — book
- Norwegian Nynorsk: songbok — book
- Occitan: cançonièr — book
- Plautdietsch: Leedabuak — book
- Polish: śpiewnik — book
- Portuguese: cancioneiro — book
- Romanian: carte de cântece — book
- Russian: пе́сенник (pésennik) — book
- Spanish: cancionero — book
- Swedish: sångbok — book
- Welsh: llyfr caneuon — book
- Yiddish: לידערבוך (liderbukh) — book
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