The songstress paused, and was answered by one or two deep and hollow groans, that seemed to proceed from the very agony of the mortal strife.
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Songstress
//ˈsɑŋɡ.stɹɪs//
Synonyms for "songstress" (29 found)
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Closest matches (6)
Strong matches (9)
Related words (14)
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Translations
31 translations across 23 languages.
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 女歌手 noun (a female singer)
Czech
2 entries- pěvkyně noun (a female singer)
- zpěvačka noun (a female singer)
Danish
1 entries- sangerinde noun (a female singer)
Dutch
1 entries- zangeres noun (a female singer)
Esperanto
1 entries- kantistino noun (a female singer)
Finnish
2 entries- laulajatar noun (a female singer)
- naislaulaja noun (a female singer)
French
1 entries- chanteuse noun (a female singer)
German
1 entries- Sängerin noun (a female singer)
Hungarian
1 entries- énekesnő noun (a female singer)
Italian
1 entries- cantante noun (a female singer)
Japanese
2 entries- 女性歌手 noun (a female singer)
- 歌姫 noun (a female singer)
Latin
1 entries- cantrīx noun (a female singer)
Middle English
2 entries- syngeresse noun (a female singer)
- syngster noun (a female singer)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- sangerinne noun (a female singer)
Polish
1 entries- pieśniarka noun (a female singer)
Portuguese
1 entries- cantora noun (a female singer)
Russian
2 entries- певи́ца noun (a female singer)
- певу́нья noun (a female singer)
Scottish Gaelic
1 entries- bean-seinn noun (a female singer)
Serbo-Croatian
2 entries- pjevàčica noun (a female singer)
- пјева̀чица noun (a female singer)
Spanish
2 entries- cantante noun (a female singer)
- cantora noun (a female singer)
Swedish
1 entries- sångerska noun (a female singer)
Ukrainian
1 entries- співа́чка noun (a female singer)
Yiddish
2 entries- זינגערין noun (a female singer)
- זינגערקע noun (a female singer)
Sample sentences
4 total sentences available.
At every pause in the music she gracefully waved her flower-basket round, inviting the loiterers to buy; and many a sesterce was showered into the basket, either in compliment to the music or in compassion to the songstress—for she was blind.
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Were I to reproduce the nine other paragraphs, it would be a very curious, instructive, and tedious specimen of literature; and, who knows? I might corrupt some immaculate soul, inspire some actor or actress, singer or songstress, with an itch for public self-laudation, a foible from which they are all at present so free. Witness the Era, the Hornet, and Figaro.
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Sally Yeh is the winsome and amiable character known as Stool, who’s living next door to the ambitious and tetchy songstress Shu-Shu, who’s both commanding and funny as portrayed by Sylvia Chang.
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