LOVE-SONG

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does love-song mean? 

• LOVE-SONG (noun)
  The noun LOVE-SONG has 1 sense:

1. a song about love or expressing love for another person

  Familiarity information: LOVE-SONG used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LOVE-SONG (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A song about love or expressing love for another person

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

love-song; love song

Hypernyms ("love-song" is a kind of...):

song; vocal (a short musical composition with words)

 Context examples 

This would always culminate with the master's arms going around White Fang's neck and shoulders while the latter crooned and growled his love-song.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

Once, for instance, to our extreme wonder, he piped up to a different air, a kind of country love-song that he must have learned in his youth before he had begun to follow the sea.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

This, said she, is nearly the sense, or rather the meaning of the words, for certainly the sense of an Italian love-song must not be talked of, but it is as nearly the meaning as I can give; for I do not pretend to understand the language.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)