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Definition of serenade verb from the Oxford Advanced American Dictionary

serenade

verb

NAmE//ˌsɛrəˈneɪd//

serenade somebodyVerb Forms present simple I / you / we / they serenade

he / she / it serenades

past simple serenaded

-ing form serenading

to sing or play music to someone (as done in the past by a man singing under her window to the woman he loved) We were serenaded by a string quartet.

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