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🎶 A lullaby 🛌 To rock to sleep
rockabye

rockabye

1 4.6
A gentle song sung to help a baby sleep while you rock them
  • noun
  • /ˈrɑːkəˌbaɪ/
  • Baby Talk
translation icon : canción de cuna
  • ♪ ♪ Everything gonna be all right ♪ ♪ Rockabye, rockabye ♪ ♪ Everything gonna be all right ♪ ♪ Rockabye, rockabye ♪ ♪ Rockabye ♪
  • Rockabye baby

Examples

  • ♪ ♪ Everything gonna be all right ♪ ♪ Rockabye, rockabye ♪ ♪ Everything gonna be all right ♪ ♪ Rockabye, rockabye ♪ ♪ Rockabye ♪

    Bad Teacher (2011)

  • ♪ ♪ Everything gonna be all right ♪ ♪ Rockabye, rockabye ♪ ♪ Everything gonna be all right ♪ ♪ Rockabye, rockabye ♪ ♪ Rockabye ♪

    Bad Teacher (2011)

  • Would she have delivered her lecture to the tune of "Rockabye Baby"?

    Blog text (32)

  • I LOVE the idea of Rockabye Baby CDs!

    Blog text (15)

  • There is also a good sample of songs on the Rockabye MySpace site.

    Blog text (15)

  • ♪ Everything gonna be all right Rockabye ♪

    Bad Teacher (2011)

  • ♪ ♪ Everything gonna be all right ♪ ♪ Rockabye, rockabye ♪ ♪ Everything gonna be all right ♪ ♪ Rockabye, rockabye ♪ ♪ Rockabye ♪

    Bad Teacher (2011)

  • ♪ ♪ Everything gonna be all right ♪ ♪ Rockabye, rockabye ♪ ♪ Everything gonna be all right ♪ ♪ Rockabye, rockabye ♪ ♪ Rockabye ♪

    Bad Teacher (2011)

  • Rockabye Baby is a lullaby rendition of several rock bands such as U2, Coldplay, Kanye West, Aerosmith, and Bob Marley, just to name a few.

    Blog text (15)

  • Every night, I sing a soothing rockabye to help my baby fall asleep.

Synonyms

lullaby
vsrockabye
  • Baby Talk
49 1.0

A soft gentle song that helps a child fall asleep

is often used while rocking the child rather than only being soft
cradlesong
vsrockabye
6.2

A soft song sung to a baby to help them fall asleep

is used while rocking the child rather than only being quiet

How Soothing

rockabye
  • Baby Talk
1 4.6
nursery rhyme
  • Literature
12 1.3
song
∞ 1.0

Surface Forms

rockabye singular
rockabyes plural

Morphology

rockabye = rock (transparent) = rock + bye

Built from the verb 'rock' plus the fossilized nursery formula 'rock-a-bye'; learners who know 'rock' can infer the lullaby/lulling meaning.

Etymology

Rockabye comes from the old nursery rhyme 'rock-a-bye baby' and is made of rock meaning 'to move gently back and forth' and the soft ending -bye often heard in lullabies and goodbyes. So a rockabye is a gentle song you sing while rocking a child to sleep.