lullaby
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- noun
- /ˈlʌləˌbaɪ/
- Baby Talk
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canción de cuna
- Every night, my mother sings a lullaby to help me drift off to sleep.
- sing a lullaby
- songs and lullabies
- lullabies and classical music
And so him composing these lullabies was something that brought him solace.
- And so him composing these lullabies was something that brought him solace.
- You know, we give them a bath and we sing them a lullaby and we read them Goodnight Moon.
- I take the hint and sing the old lullaby her great grandmother sang to the child I once was.
- It's how I hate the Night, also known as Marvin's Lullaby, which is a short dolorous duty of no tone or indeed tune.
Examples
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I still remember some of the lullabies she used to sing to me.
Fiction book (1999) -
You know, we give them a bath and we sing them a lullaby and we read them Goodnight Moon.
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We sing a little lullaby, and we go night night.
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And I will sing a lullaby With a song in my heart
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Hey, the lullaby worked better than ever.
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Now close your little eyes, and grandmother will sing you a lullaby to finish the day.
Fiction book (1991) -
I take the hint and sing the old lullaby her great grandmother sang to the child I once was.
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Maybe it has no name; it's just an old lullaby, a simple, anonymous cradle song.
Fiction book (1998) -
Ask children to sing some of their favorite lullabies while rocking stuffed animals or pretending to rock babies.
Academic text (2003) -
Distant music, Brahms' lullaby, from the Rosner Brothers way down by the women's barracks, calming the inhabitants.
Fiction book (1993)
Synonyms
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A soft song to help a child sleep
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A gentle song sung to help a baby sleep while you rock them
A soft song sung to a baby to help them fall asleep
Antonyms
How Soothing
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Lullaby comes from the verb lull 'to calm' and the short word bye used in old songs. So a lullaby is a soft song that calms a child and sends them to sleep.