Sung Meaning
/sʌŋ/Definition, CEFR level A1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
verbpast participle of sing
verbsimple past of sing
Sentence Examples
Anything that is too stupid to be spoken is sung.
Have you ever heard that song sung in French?
CEFR Practice Quiz
The famous opera singer had ____ that beautiful aria at the concert last night.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The beautiful hymn was ____ by the church choir during the special holiday service held earlier today.
Word Origin & History
From Chinese 宋 (Sòng) Wade–Giles romanization: Sung⁴.
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"And they sung as it were a new song before the throne, and before the four beasts, and the elders, and no man could learn that song but the hundred and forty and four thousand, which were redeemed from the earth."
— 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Revelation 14:3:
"Lulled by the Syren-song that my own heart sung to me, with eyes shut to all sight, and ears closed to all sound of danger, I drifted nearer and nearer to the fatal rocks."
— 1859, Wilkie Collins, The Woman in White:
"It was one of those serene and lovely mornings that sometimes succeed a storm. The birds sung loud and cheerily […]"
— 1862, Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Lady Audley's Secret:
"At present the metropolitan area of Kuang-chou City alone comprises some 1,500,000 people or twice that of the Sung period for all of the two provinces."
— 1954, Herold J. Wiens, Han Chinese Expansion in South China, Shoe String Press, published 1967, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 143:
"Fish were produced in Hu-chou for sale at the Southern Sung capital."
— 1970 [1968], Shiba Yoshinobu, translated by Mark Elvin, Commerce and Society in Sung China, published 1992, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 102:
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CEFR Practice Quiz
The famous opera singer had ____ that beautiful aria at the concert last night.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The beautiful hymn was ____ by the church choir during the special holiday service held earlier today.