serenade
noun
a complimentary performance of vocal or instrumental music in the open air at night, as by a lover under the window of his lady.
serenader
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a word derived from
serenade.
Example Sentences
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A day laborer, an organizer, a serenader, a skilled cumbia dancer and, now, an actor.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 15, 2025
He was also warmly received as a young man by Georges Delerue, the great serenader of the French New Wave in films like “Jules and Jim” and “Contempt.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 1, 2025
Mrs. Cuartas’s fourth debilitated child, in Medellín, Carlos Alberto Villegas, a former livestock trader and guitar serenader now often fed by baby bottle, married a distant cousin.
From New York Times ● Jun. 2, 2010
Then the music ceased, and the tinkling of coins on a plate proclaimed the status of our serenader.
From The Land of the Black Mountain The Adventures of Two Englishmen in Montenegro by Reginald Wyon
They opened up simultaneously from every quarter, and the kind and variety of missiles used would be beyond the wildest expectations of that sweet-throated midnight serenader, the Thomas-cat.
From Bamboo Tales by J. Alexander Mackay
