singer

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
7
Words With Friends
9
Letters
6
Pronunciation
/ˈsɪŋ.ə/
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/ˈsɪŋ.ə/ · /ˈsɪŋ.ɚ/ · /ˈsɪŋ.ɡə/ · /ˈsɪnd͡ʒə(ɹ)/

Definition of singer

8 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. A person who sings, often professionally.
    “It's the singer, not the song.”
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noun

  1. A person who sings, often professionally.
    “It's the singer, not the song.”
  2. dance figure with a fixed structure, sung by a caller, or a piece of music with that structure.
  3. A person who, or device which, singes.
  4. A machine for singeing cloth.
  5. A sewing machine of the Singer brand.
    “They were ancient industrial Singers, made of iron and brass and strung with heavy cotton binding thread that fed like spider webs from spools perched on tall twin spindles.”
  6. (UK)A motorcar from a former make of British motor car.

name

  1. A surname originating as an occupation.
    “Nick Reiner is “responsible” for the deaths of his parents, legendary Hollywood director Rob Reiner and producer Michele Singer Reiner, Los Angeles police said.”
  2. A railway station in Clydebank, West Dunbartonshire council area, Scotland, United Kingdom, named after the Singer sewing machine factory that formerly existed there (OS grid ref NS4970).

Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English synger, syngere, singere, singare, equivalent to sing + -er. Cognate with Scots singar, Saterland Frisian Sjunger, West Frisian sjonger, German Low German Singer. Compare also Old English sangere, Dutch zanger, German Low German Sänger, German Sänger (“singer”), Danish sanger, Swedish sångare, Icelandic söngvari.

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