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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
singer
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
opera singer
▪ an opera singer
playback singer
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
black
▪ Many of the great black singers began in their local churches.
▪ Which black singer is it that I sound like?
▪ A gay, black female singer would never make it.
famous
▪ Some people say he's a famous opera singer who likes to come incognito back to his roots.
▪ In 1894 he became teacher of singing at the Royal Academy of Music, and many famous singers were his pupils.
▪ She explained that Gran had once been a famous singer and that she played the organ and was teaching Oliver to sing.
▪ She hadn't really thought the famous singer would have time to spend with her, had she?
female
▪ In 1991 Najma was voted best female singer in the pop awards.
▪ Among female singers, Jessye Norman has a highly enthusiastic following, in part because opera appearances are rare.
▪ The worst male singer was Jason Donovan and worst female singer was Dannii Minogue.
▪ There is no other female singer / songwriter like her.
▪ She became the first female singer to top the festive chart twice.
▪ A gay, black female singer would never make it.
▪ Either that or the better-heeled locals enjoy female singers wailing purposefully at their table and moving away only when handed money.
fine
▪ The husband, Thomas, was a fine singer and a bad farmer.
▪ Outdoor concerts are fine for country singers, provided they involve cutting and baling hay from the seating areas before hand.
▪ She was noted throughout Kensington and the surrounding areas as a fine singer.
▪ Only a short time before his death in a road crash, I did an item with that fine singer Dickie Valentine.
folk
▪ I grew up around folk singers, people who sang in little bars.
▪ According to her bio, fast-rising folk singer Dar Williams is on a constant search for truth and beauty.
good
▪ Ochs, a better singer, contended that a pretty melody would attract more listeners.
▪ But better singers fell by the wayside.
▪ Q.. Do you think you are better singers or dancers?
▪ A dead good singer, but, alas, no different from the way he was before.
▪ Recent years have been good to singer / songwriter Tish Hinojosa, and with good reason.
▪ She is now the best singer in Paris.
▪ Carson began playing guitar at age 10, always wanted to be a songwriter and never thought she was a good singer.
great
▪ Many of the great black singers began in their local churches.
▪ There she became friends with Busoni and Klemperer and formed a life-long close rapport with another great singer, Lotte Lehmann.
▪ Of course, not every great singer is impossible to please.
▪ What makes a great soul singer?
▪ To make this joint quite clear let us suppose that one had wanted to be a great singer.
▪ Both are great singers who went on to contribute much to the genre.
male
▪ The worst male singer was Jason Donovan and worst female singer was Dannii Minogue.
▪ He said 19 is the average score for male singers.
old
▪ The fifty nine year old singer who'd been dogged by ill health died at his home in Arbroath on Monday.
▪ Wilson is a fiercely independent, 40-year-#old singer and songwriter with a creamy, sultry contralto.
▪ Heady stuff for a 21-year-#old rock singer?
pop
▪ In an elaborate bedroom game the voice was provided by pop singer David Loeffler.
▪ The pop singer, 60, has lived in the home since the mid-1970s.
▪ That's how much the actress turned pop singer charges for personal appearances.
popular
▪ He struggled to bring in attractions like the popular singer Sandie Shaw but the ballroom was in trouble.
▪ In fact, all the events' of daily life are grist to the mill of these popular singers.
▪ The study cited a recent search using the name of Britney Spears, the popular teenage singer.
▪ Louis Armstrong has a good claim to being the most influential popular singer of the century.
▪ Here's one of our most popular singers - Bluestack Bill.
professional
▪ I know Alison is not a professional singer so I was interested to hear how it came out.
▪ Q: Do you have any advice for those want to become a professional singer?
▪ If this man had another career it must be as a professional singer.
▪ He says he wanted to become a professional singer so he wouldn't have to do a job he didn't like.
▪ Lily did not care, she had the offer of work as a professional singer in her hand.
▪ The truth was Denis O'Neil Senior could well have been a professional singer.
young
▪ It's an energetic part even for a young singer.
▪ Try as they might, however, the younger singers rarely measure up to their forebears.
▪ Any young singers who would like further information can contact Keith Smith.
▪ He became friendly with a young singer and dancer named Marguerite Angelos, later known as the writer Maya Angelou.
▪ It would be a pity to miss the handsome young singer.
▪ I have also been listening to this wonderful young singer from Dresden, Olaf Bär.
▪ And as for the young singers, they certainly gave the design the stamp of approval.
■ NOUN
backing
▪ She has already established herself as a backing singer specialising in jazz and stands to win professional recording sessions.
▪ As well as the choirs, the following also appeared in the cast: Pharaoh's backing singers.
▪ Having come from backing singer to lead, Sam is now enjoying well deserved success with the title song Stop.
country
▪ Outdoor concerts are fine for country singers, provided they involve cutting and baling hay from the seating areas before hand.
▪ Mr Brooks is a putative country singer.
gospel
▪ Mr McCrea, a preacher and successful gospel singer, was parachuted in from the neighbouring Mid-Ulster constituency.
jazz
▪ It was an environment where he could be what he always wanted to be -- a jazz singer.
▪ Nor is Badu in any way a slavish Holiday imitator or even a jazz singer.
lead
▪ She was lead singer in the Black and White Minstrel Show during the 70s.
▪ But it is difficult to take him seriously because he looks like he should be the lead singer for Oasis.
▪ She was the lead singer in an all-girl rock group.
▪ The lead singer, have you seen his hair?
▪ The lead singer had a Mohican haircut and lots of chains and zips.
▪ The floppy fringes and pouting lips of the respective lead singers are another story entirely.
opera
▪ Some people say he's a famous opera singer who likes to come incognito back to his roots.
▪ An opera singer was shrieking-wah-wah.
▪ And Angèle Didier is supposed to be an opera singer, an experienced woman of the world.
▪ The portrait photographer had me clasp my hands like an opera singer and look straight into the camera.
▪ This was the home of the celebrated opera singer Destinová who held her salon here.
▪ Another was a leading light opera singer in the local community.
▪ I worked and worked at my singing, because I wanted to be an opera singer.
▪ My father told me a joke once, about a man who marries an ugly opera singer because he loves her voice.
soul
▪ Phil Fearon, the soul singer, went to junior school with me.
▪ What makes a great soul singer?
▪ How do you turn a duck into a soul singer?
■ VERB
become
▪ Read in studio A successful businessman is giving up the security of office life to become a rock singer.
▪ Q: Who inspired you to become a singer?
▪ He says he wanted to become a professional singer so he wouldn't have to do a job he didn't like.
▪ Then the desire to become a singer would be first force.
▪ She became the first female singer to top the festive chart twice.
▪ Q: Do you have any advice for those want to become a professional singer?
include
▪ Boone is also the father of four daughters, including singer Debby Boone.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
lead singer/guitarist etc
▪ But it is difficult to take him seriously because he looks like he should be the lead singer for Oasis.
▪ He's our lead singer, or rather I should say he was.
▪ She was lead singer in the Black and White Minstrel Show during the 70s.
▪ The lead singer had a Mohican haircut and lots of chains and zips.
▪ The lead singer, have you seen his hair?
▪ The band includes lead guitarist Chris Floyd, a former Leesburg city commissioner.
▪ The floppy fringes and pouting lips of the respective lead singers are another story entirely.
natural-born singer/story-teller etc
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ a jazz singer
▪ an opera singer
▪ I wanted to have a career as a singer.
▪ In those days we had a band with a brass section and a couple of female backing singers.
▪ Jodie dreamed of being a rock singer.
▪ Mick Jagger, the lead singer with the Rolling Stones
▪ She's very pretty, and a good singer too.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Apart from a mettlesome Emilia in Gisella Pasino the smaller roles are filled with indifferent singers.
▪ As well as the choirs, the following also appeared in the cast: Pharaoh's backing singers.
▪ But musicians and other singers know who I am.
▪ Friday, January 24, the incomparable singer / songwriter Miss Lavelle White takes the stage.
▪ If ever a singer were destined for dismissal as a novelty act, it would be him.
▪ In 1979, singer Nancy Wilson hired him to open her nightclub act.
▪ Is she the drug-addled singer who made thousands weep?
▪ Like a country-western singer, she choruses again and again that her man has done her wrong.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Singer

Singer \Sin"ger\ (s[i^]n"j[~e]r), n. [From Singe.] One who, or that which, singes. Specifically:

  1. One employed to singe cloth.

  2. A machine for singeing cloth.

Singer

Singer \Sing"er\, n. [From Sing.] One who sings; especially, one whose profession is to sing.

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
singer

early 14c. (mid-13c. as a surname), agent noun from sing (v.). Old English had songer "psalm-writer," sangere "singer, poet" (also see songster).

Wiktionary
singer

Etymology 1 n. 1 A person who sings, often professionally. 2 (context square dance English) dance figure with a fixed structure, sung by a caller, or a piece of music with that structure. See square dance singer. Etymology 2

n. A person who, or device which, singes; a machine for singeing cloth.

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WordNet
singer

  1. n. a person who sings [syn: vocalist, vocalizer, vocaliser]

  2. United States inventor of an improved chain-stitch sewing machine (1811-1875) [syn: Isaac M. Singer, Isaac Merrit Singer]

  3. United States writer (born in Poland) of Yiddish stories and novels (1904-1991) [syn: Isaac Bashevis Singer]

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Wikipedia
Singer (disambiguation)

A singer is a person who sings.

Singer may refer also to:

  • Singer (surname)
  • Singer Corporation, major manufacturer of sewing machines
  • Singer Building, in which the Singer Corporation was based in New York City
  • Singer (dog), a species of wild dog also known as the New Guinea singing dog
  • Singer (automobile company), a defunct American maker of luxury cars
  • Singer Motors, a defunct British bicycle, motorcycle and automobile manufacturer
  • Singer (novel), a 2005 young-adult fantasy novel by Jean Thesman
  • "The Singer", a poem by Alexander Pushkin
  • Singer railway station, Clydebank, West Dunbartonshire, Scotland
  • Singer (naval mine)
  • Singers (album), by Mount Eerie
  • Singer (band), a Chicago musical group featuring members of Lichens/ 90 Day Men, U.S. Maple & Town & Country
Singer (novel)

Singer (2005) is a young-adult fantasy novel by Jean Thesman, based loosely on the Irish legend of the Children of Lir, but having more in common with Thesman's earlier novel The Other Ones, about a young girl coming to terms with her magical powers.

Singer (surname)

Singer is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

  • Addie Singer, fictional character from the TV show Unfabulous
  • Alvy Singer, lead character played by Woody Allen in the movie Annie Hall
  • Baruch Singer (born 1954), American real estate investor
  • Bryan Singer, film director
  • Burns Singer, poet
  • Cecile D. Singer (born c. 1929), New York politician
  • Charles Singer (1876–1960), British historian
  • Edgar Arthur Singer (1873–1954), American philosopher
  • Eric Singer, rock drummer
  • Fred Singer, physicist
  • George Singer, (1847–1909), English cycle manufacturer
  • Hans Singer, German economist
  • Horace M. Singer (1823–1896), American businessman and politician
  • Isaac Singer (1811–1875), inventor of the modern sewing machine and founder of the Singer Corporation
  • Isaac Bashevis Singer (1904–1991), American novelist
  • Isadore Singer, mathematician
  • Isidore Singer, editor of the Jewish Encyclopedia
  • Israel Joshua Singer, a novelist and elder brother of Isaac Bashevis Singer
  • Itamar Singer, Israeli archaeologist
  • Karl Singer, American football player
  • Kurt Singer
  • Kyle Singer
  • Lavoslav Singer, Croatian industrialist
  • Lori Singer, American actress
  • Marc Singer, American TV actor
  • Marcus George Singer, an American philosopher, born in 1926.
  • Margaret Singer, clinical psychologist
  • P. W. Singer (Peter Warren Singer, born 1973/74), American scholar of politics and war
  • Peter Singer (disambiguation), several people
  • Richard Singer, American actor
  • Rolf Singer (1906–1994), mycologist
  • Samuel Weller Singer (1783–1858), English author, Shakespeare scholar and historian of card games
  • Seymour Jonathan Singer
  • Stephen Singer-Brewster
  • Vlado Singer, Croatian politician
  • Walt Singer, American football player
  • Winnaretta Singer, princess and daughter of Isaac Merrit Singer
Singer (naval mine)

The Singer was a naval mine made and deployed by the Confederacy during the American Civil War. It was a manually laid moored contact mine.

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Usage examples of "singer".

In short, religious notices were sprinkled in among the theater bills, and the highest church dignitaries were advertised side by side with actors, singers, and clowns.

The act was not boffo, but the new girl singer was even worse than Dolly, so she got a reprieve.

The singers alternately leaned toward Brod, then shied off again, to his embarrassment and the amusement of everyone else.

Inez was assigned to help the two men carrying Singer, for each of them was also burdened with his baggage.

This cavatina has been the show piece of hundreds of singers ever since it was written.

He was the lover of Colonna, the singer, but their affection seemed to me a torment, for they could scarce live together in peace for a single day.

In four or five days I knew my way about the town, but I did not frequent polite assemblies, preferring to go to the theatre, where a comic opera singer had captivated me.

The evening passed away in pleasant conversation, and the younger singer did not need much persuasion to seat herself at the piano, where she sang in a manner that won genuine applause.

Busy though he was at the telephone directing the coup in Vienna, he managed to slip over during the evening to the Haus der Flieger, where he was official host to a thousand high-ranking officials and diplomats, who were being entertained at a glittering soiree by the orchestra, the singers and the ballet of the State Opera.

Your Many are more merrily alive Than erewhile when I gloried in the page Of radiant singer and anointed sage.

In an open-minded world, this discovery, he imagined, would have every Mormon-basher and every Utah-basher eating their words, and every scavenging journalist would forget about the Mark Hof- manns and the Ervil Lebarons and the Bruce Longos and the Paul Singers and would be writing treatises about the rightful restoration of the true Church of Jesus Christ.

Recent history in controlling the fallout from Ervil Lebaron, Mark Hofmann, Paul Singer, Evan Mecham, and Bruce Longo told the Church leadership that their safest position was to let this fiasco pass on its own.

Even after he joined the Revel a year later, he avoided Trin and the other Qirsi, passing what little time he spent away from the gleaning tent and his room with Eandi singers and dancers.

Janet Goudge and Peggy, but the opera singer was another matter altogether.

The Singer from the Sea The crest of the water curled above them in a glassy mountain, foam edged, growing higher and more curled, then higher yet, breaking at last as the wave lipped over the walls, gulping the city into the maw of the sea.