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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
songster
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A songster can switch his ornament off when danger threatens.
▪ And are some Humpbacks considered better songsters than others?
▪ And listening to songsters in a month when song is at its peak.
▪ Management policy on the reserve includes a regular coppicing-with-standards rotation, providing the songsters with the habitat they seek.
▪ Nineteen-year-old songster Sebastian made his amazing gaffe as Di visited a centre for homeless youngsters.
▪ Now the exuberance of the varied songsters is almost deafening.
▪ Reed and sedge warblers were the dominant songsters.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Songster

Songster \Song"ster\ (s[o^]ng"st[~e]r), n. [AS. sangestre a female singer.]

  1. One who sings; one skilled in singing; -- not often applied to human beings.

  2. (Zo["o]l.) A singing bird.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
songster

Old English sangystre "female singer;" see song (n.) + -ster. Also of men skilled in singing by mid-14c. Separate fem. form songstress is attested from 1703.

Wiktionary
songster

n. 1 A man who sings songs, especially as a profession; a male singer. 2 A male songbird. 3 (context formal English) One who writes songs. 4 (context US English) A book of songs; songbook.

WordNet
songster

  1. n. a composer of words or music for popular songs [syn: songwriter, ballad maker]

  2. a person who sings

  3. any bird having a musical call [syn: songbird]

Wikipedia
Songster

A "songster" is a wandering musician, usually but not always African-American, of the type which first appeared in the late 19th century in the southern United States.

Usage examples of "songster".

He is rather like that detestable and spidery thing the araucaria, which has a wound for every tender hand, and invites no bright-eyed feathered songsters to perch or build among its sinister branches.

If it were, it was a much larger one than the inconsiderable passerine songsters that fluttered about him.

It might have been the note of some fantastic tropical songster, so vague that it all but defied recognition, and possessed of a ventriloquial quality which made it seem to come from everywhere.

Now and then I notice one of the smaller songsters who seems to strain his throat in a madly joyous endeavour to out-carol all the rest.

I was not only nearer to some of those which commonly frequent the garden and the orchard, but to those wilder and more thrilling songsters of the forest which never, or rarely, serenade a villager-the wood thrush, the veery, the scarlet tanager, the field sparrow, the whip-poor-will, and many others.

Which being come, they sat them down at table beside the little lake, and there, while a thousand songsters charmed their ears, and a gentle breeze, that blew from the environing hills, fanned them, and never a fly annoyed them, reposefully and joyously they supped.

Comb vines and resonators formed a verdant vocal background for the songsters of the animal kingdom.