songwriter

«songwriter» in Mova's school dictionary: a person who writes songs: the words, the tune, or both — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (a songwriter, songwriters)

meaning for a pupil

A songwriter is a person who writes songs: the words, the tune, or both. tree →

sense in the lessons

Used in music lessons and everyday talk about pop stars and bands; related words: lyrics (the words), melody (the tune), singer-songwriter (someone who writes and sings their own songs).

examples

• Taylor Swift is a famous singer-songwriter. tree →
• The songwriter wrote the tune on her guitar. tree →
• Our class became songwriters for the school concert. tree →
• Many songs are written by teams of songwriters. tree →
• A songwriter needs ideas, rhyme and rhythm. tree →
• He dreams of being a songwriter one day. tree →

note

Countable. One word. A songwriter is not always the singer: many singers perform songs that other people wrote.

In the corpora

• Some songwriters start with words, some with a tune or chords, some with a beat; there is no single correct way.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «songwriter» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.