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songworthy en · ADJ

Etymology

From song + -worthy.

Meanings

1. Worthy of song or of being sung.
   • That he comes up a shade self-pitying (he still goes barefoot) is reconciled only by the fact that he's made the subject songworthy this late in his career. 1999, Tim Riley, Hard rain: a Dylan commentary:
2. Worthy of being sung about.
   • [...] which contains this truly beautiful description of a thoroughly successful life as imagined by a Greek: "That man is happy and songworthy by the skilled, who, victorious by might of hand or vigour of foot, achieves the greatest prizes with daring and with strength; [...] 1873, John Addington Symonds, Studies of the Greek poets: Volume 1:

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