song thrush

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noun

a common, European songbird, Turdus philomelos.

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Origin of song thrush

First recorded in 1660–70

Words nearby song thrush

songololo, songsmith, song sparrow, songster, songstress, song thrush, songwriter, soni-, Sonia, sonic, sonication

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So here I am in my requisite Lululemon pants, grunting along to an old hip-hop song at a most ungodly hour.
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I still do find it a tremendously useful device to invent a character and have the character sing the song.
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In 2012, as a 10th grader, Lean says he recorded his first legitimate song, “Hurt.”
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So we picked out the song (“Rhiannon,” click here for video), and Deer Tick learned it.
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So this is Christmas, as the song goes, and what have we done?
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At this moment the tinkling of a mule's bells, mingled with the song of the muleteer, came on the air.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 60, No. 372, October 1846|Various
Gushing waters thrilled the ears with the sweetness of an old familiar song.
The Giant of the North|R.M. Ballantyne
The song stopped abruptly, the music died away, there was an interval of silence no one broke.
The Wave|Algernon Blackwood
"He 's getting well," thought Black Sheep, who knew the song through all its seventeen verses.
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As Edna waited for her husband she sang low a little song that Robert had sung as they crossed the bay.
The Awakening and Selected Short Stories|Kate Chopin

British Dictionary definitions for song thrush

song thrush

noun

a common Old World thrush, Turdus philomelos, that has a brown back and spotted breast and is noted for its song

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