songe

See also: songé and Songe

English

Noun

songe (plural songes)

1. Obsolete spelling of song

Anagrams

• ENGOs, Genos, Goens, NGEOs, genos, geons, onegs, segno

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.

Related terms

• songer
• songeur

Further reading

• “songe”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Middle English

Noun

songe

1. Alternative form of song

Old French

Alternative forms

• sonje

Etymology

From Latin somnium.

Noun

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

1. dream

Related terms

• songier

Descendants

• French: songe