(n.) One who sings; one skilled in singing; -- not often applied to human beings.
(n.) A singing bird.
Example Sentences:
(1) A very popular suggestion was Brazilian forward Creedence Clearwater Couto , whose parents were - fortunately - big fans of the American songsters, while there were also calls for former England internationals Harry Daft and Segar Bastard (who, incidentally, refereed an FA Cup final, played cricket for Essex and owned a racehorse).
(2) On Nottingham songster Jake Bugg "The UK is no more productive than it was back in 2005 – before Jake Bugg got his first guitar."
(3) In a forthcoming book Panda Nation: Nature, Science, and Nationalism in the People's Republic of China , American historian Elena Songster argues that one of the reasons the panda was such a suitable emblem for the bold, new state was that it was completely free of associations with China's imperial past.
(4) The frighteningly serous songsters who entertain the crowd of Japazilian hipsters, Brazilian twentysomethings, curious tourists and gaggles of hen parties offer dead-ringer renditions of Japanese, Brazilian and Anglo-American pop classics.
(5) So while many subjects were off limits for artists during China's turbulent cultural revolution, the panda was not, says Songster.
(6) Ever since, ornithologists have been at pains to point out that the chances of hearing a nightingale in central London are virtually non-existent, and that the bird was far more likely to have been that persistent nocturnal songster, the robin .
Songstress
Definition:
(n.) A woman who sings; a female singing bird.
Example Sentences:
(1) I mean, a very, very famous dramatic actor, and here I was just a musical songstress, and honest to god, that's the way I felt."
(2) The newspapers and television stations remain fixated on the tawdry, glittering spectacle of this Rihanna – a songstress who has likely never even heard of St Augustine – even as the gravitational pull of the universe warps around me like a pulsating cocoon entirely absent of light.