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English
Noun
songe (plural songes)
- Obsolete spelling of song.
Anagrams
French
Etymology
Inherited from Old French songe, from Latin somnium. Compare Italian sogno, Spanish sueño and Portuguese sonho.
Pronunciation
Noun
songe m (plural songes)
- (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
- Alternative form of song
Old French
Etymology
From Latin somnium.
Noun
songe oblique singular, m (oblique plural songes, nominative singular songes, nominative plural songe)
- dream
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