Noun: singer
| Singular | singer |
| Plural | singers |
Sample Sentences
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It's the singer, not the song.
Nouns inflected like singer
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English synger, syngere, singere, singare, equivalent to sing + -er. Cognate with Scots singar, Saterland Frisian Sjunger, West Frisian sjonger, German Low German Singer. Compare also Old English sangere, Dutch zanger, German Low German Sänger, German Sänger (“singer”), Danish sanger, Swedish sångare, Icelandic söngvari. See: Middle English Nouns '
synger', Middle English Nouns '
synger', Old English Nouns '
sangere', Dutch Nouns '
zanger', German Nouns '
Sänger', Danish Nouns '
sanger', Swedish Nouns '
sångare', Icelandic Nouns '
söngvari'.