Definition of "songbird" [songbird]

• A bird, especially one of the suborder Oscines of passerine birds, having a melodious song or call. (noun)

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• "When I'd finished this book, I felt like a cage from which the songbird is being removed."
• "The twenty-six year old songbird is currently at odds with her husband’s parents."
• "Last week I used a program called songbird and it worked fine first time with my two ipods."