songe

See also: songé and Songe

English

Noun

songe (plural songes)

  1. Obsolete spelling of song.

Anagrams

French

Etymology

Inherited from Old French songe, from Latin somnium. Compare Italian sogno, Spanish sueño and Portuguese sonho.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /sɔ̃ʒ/
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Noun

songe m (plural songes)

  1. (literary) dream
    Synonym: rêve
    • 1640, Pierre Corneille, Horace, act I, scene 2:
      C'est en contraire sens qu'un songe s'interprète.
      It is contrarily that one interprets a dream.

Further reading

Middle English

Noun

songe

  1. alternative form of song

Old French

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Latin somnium.

Noun

songe oblique singularm (oblique plural songes, nominative singular songes, nominative plural songe)

  1. dream

Descendants

  • French: songe
  • Franc-Comtois: sondge