A member of a Salvation Army family, she had been a songster accompanying the band around the streets of Chelmsford where she lived with her parents.
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Songster
//ˈsɒŋstɚ//
Synonyms for "songster" (101 found)
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Closest matches (21)
Strong matches (30)
Related words (50)
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Translations
39 translations across 20 languages.
Bulgarian
4 entries- мъжка пойна птица noun (male songbird)
- певе́ц noun (man who sings songs)
- песенник noun (one who writes songs)
- песнопойка noun (songbook, book of songs)
Czech
2 entries- pěvec noun (man who sings songs)
- zpěvák noun (man who sings songs)
Danish
1 entries- sanger noun (man who sings songs)
Dutch
2 entries- songster noun (Salvation Army chorister)
- zanger noun (man who sings songs)
Finnish
1 entries- laulaja noun (man who sings songs)
French
1 entries- chanteur noun (man who sings songs)
German
1 entries- Sänger noun (man who sings songs)
Hungarian
2 entries- dalnok noun (man who sings songs)
- énekes noun (man who sings songs)
Italian
1 entries- cantante noun (man who sings songs)
Japanese
1 entries- 歌手 noun (man who sings songs)
Latin
1 entries- cantator noun (man who sings songs)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- sanger noun (man who sings songs)
Polish
4 entries- autor tekstów piosenek noun (one who writes songs)
- autorka tekstów piosenek noun (one who writes songs)
- piewca noun (man who sings songs)
- pieśniarka noun (man who sings songs)
Portuguese
1 entries- cantor noun (man who sings songs)
Russian
3 entries- пе́сенник noun (man who sings songs)
- пе́сенник noun (one who writes songs)
- певе́ц noun (man who sings songs)
Scottish Gaelic
1 entries- fear-seinn noun (man who sings songs)
Serbo-Croatian
2 entries- pjevàč noun (man who sings songs)
- пјева̀ч noun (man who sings songs)
Spanish
2 entries- cantante noun (man who sings songs)
- cantor noun (man who sings songs)
Ukrainian
1 entries- пісня́р noun (one who writes songs)
Welsh
2 entries- cantor noun (man who sings songs)
- canwr noun (man who sings songs)
Sample sentences
4 total sentences available.
On a later occasion he returned to the theme of keeping the individuality of Salvation Army music, and resisting the temptation for songster brigades to imitate chapel and mission choirs.
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The woodcock, the snipe, and other nocturnal birds were all gone to rest; but the merry songsters of the wood now filled the air with their jubilee; the nutcracker began his monotonous clattering, the chaffinches and the wrens sang high in the sky, the blackcock scolded and blustered loudly, the thrush sang his mocking songs and libellous ditties about everybody, but became occasionally a little sentimental and warbled gently and bashfully some tender stanzas.
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Because the Jew was often compelled to sing and dance to a fixed Mah Yafit melody at the wild orgies of the paritzim (wealthy Polish landowners), many deliberately discontinued singing Mah Yafit, thus causing the text to be removed from numerous Siddurim and songsters in the early 1900s.
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