A natural and untrained musical note resembling the song of a bird.
〈诗/文〉林中音(似鸟叫声的自然而未经训练的音调)
Example sentencesExamples
The low woodnotes of a roller served as a substitute for Gloria in Excelsis following our final response to Adam's versicles.
A year later, in ‘L' Allegro ’, the delphic element had disappeared, and Milton's cheerful man heard ‘Sweetest Shakespeare, fancy's child Warble his native woodnotes wild’.
But I often warble my native woodnotes wild in my bath while plying the loofah, at the car wheel, perhaps in a sunburst of joy at finding a parking space in Edinburgh and, sometimes, to add a crackling, catarrhal accompaniment to some oleaginous operatic tenor on radio or TV.
Definition of woodnote in US English:
woodnote
nounˈwʊdnoʊtˈwo͝odnōt
literary
A natural and untrained musical note resembling the song of a bird.
〈诗/文〉林中音(似鸟叫声的自然而未经训练的音调)
Example sentencesExamples
A year later, in ‘L' Allegro ’, the delphic element had disappeared, and Milton's cheerful man heard ‘Sweetest Shakespeare, fancy's child Warble his native woodnotes wild’.
The low woodnotes of a roller served as a substitute for Gloria in Excelsis following our final response to Adam's versicles.
But I often warble my native woodnotes wild in my bath while plying the loofah, at the car wheel, perhaps in a sunburst of joy at finding a parking space in Edinburgh and, sometimes, to add a crackling, catarrhal accompaniment to some oleaginous operatic tenor on radio or TV.