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
Edward Mauville sighing at a lady’s window like some sentimental serenader!
From The Strollers by Harrison Fisher
Germany's attitude towards the United States tempers the blandishments of the serenader with the occasional discharge of half-bricks.
From Mr. Punch's History of the Great War by Charles L. (Charles Larcom) Graves
