serenade
verb/ˌserəˈneɪd/
/ˌserəˈneɪd/
Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they serenade | /ˌserəˈneɪd/ /ˌserəˈneɪd/ |
| he / she / it serenades | /ˌserəˈneɪdz/ /ˌserəˈneɪdz/ |
| past simple serenaded | /ˌserəˈneɪdɪd/ /ˌserəˈneɪdɪd/ |
| past participle serenaded | /ˌserəˈneɪdɪd/ /ˌserəˈneɪdɪd/ |
| -ing form serenading | /ˌserəˈneɪdɪŋ/ /ˌserəˈneɪdɪŋ/ |
- serenade somebody to sing or play music to somebody (as done in the past by a man singing under her window to the woman he loved)
- We were serenaded by a string quartet.
Word Originmid 17th cent.: from French sérénade, from Italian serenata, from sereno ‘serene’.
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