Word Meanings - DITTY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

p. p. neut. of dictare to say often, dictate, compose. See Dictate, 1. A saying or utterance; especially, one that is short and frequently repeated; a theme. O, too high ditty for my simple rhyme. Spenser. 2. A song; a lay; a little poem intended

Additional info about word: DITTY

p. p. neut. of dictare to say often, dictate, compose. See Dictate, 1. A saying or utterance; especially, one that is short and frequently repeated; a theme. O, too high ditty for my simple rhyme. Spenser. 2. A song; a lay; a little poem intended to be sung. "Religious, martial, or civil ditties." Milton.ditties sing. Sandys.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of DITTY)

• Song
• Poem
• lay
• ballad
• strain
• ditty
• carol
• anthem
• epic
• lyric

Related words: (words related to DITTY)

• ANTHEMIS
  Chamomile; a genus of composite, herbaceous plants.
• BALLADE
  A form of French versification, sometimes imitated in English, in which three or four rhymes recur through three stanzas of eight or ten lines each, the stanzas concluding with a refrain, and the whole poem with an envoy.
• STRAINABLE
  1. Capable of being strained. 2. Violent in action. Holinshed.
• DITTY
  p. p. neut. of dictare to say often, dictate, compose. See Dictate, 1. A saying or utterance; especially, one that is short and frequently repeated; a theme. O, too high ditty for my simple rhyme. Spenser. 2. A song; a lay; a little poem intended
• CAROLING
  A song of joy or devotion; a singing, as of carols. Coleridge. Such heavenly notes and carolings. Spenser.
• CAROLINE
  A coin. See Carline.
• STRAINING
  from Strain. Straining piece , a short piece of timber in a truss, used to maintain the ends of struts or rafters, and keep them from slipping. See Illust. of Queen-post.
• CAROLUS
  An English gold coin of the value of twenty or twenty-three shillings. It was first struck in the reign of Charles I. Told down the crowns and Caroluses. Macawlay.
• STRAINED
  1. Subjected to great or excessive tension; wrenched; weakened; as, strained relations between old friends. 2. Done or produced with straining or excessive effort; as, his wit was strained.
• LYRIC; LYRICAL
  1. Of or pertaining to a lyre or harp. 2. Fitted to be sung to the lyre; hence, also, appropriate for song; -- said especially of poetry which expresses the individual emotions of the poet. "Sweet lyric song." Milton.
• CAROLINIAN
  A native or inhabitant of north or South Carolina.
• CAROL; CARROL
  A small closet or inclosure built against a window on the inner side, to sit in for study. The word was used as late as the 16th century. A bay window may thus be called a carol. Parker.
• BALLADRY
  Ballad poems; the subject or style of ballads. "Base balladry is so beloved." Drayton.
• ANTHEMWISE
  Alternately. Bacon.
• LYRICALLY
  In a lyrical manner.
• ANTHEMION
  A floral ornament. See Palmette.
• CAROLINA PINK
  See PINKBOOT
• STRAINT
  Overexertion; excessive tension; strain. Spenser.
• BALLADER
  A writer of ballads.
• STRAIN
  1. Race; stock; generation; descent; family. He is of a noble strain. Shak. With animals and plants a cross between different varieties, or between individuals of the same variety but of another strain, gives vigor and fertility to the offspring.
• RESTRAINABLE
  Capable of being restrained; controllable. Sir T. Browne.
• DISTRAINER
  See DISTRAINOR
• HALF-STRAINED
  Half-bred; imperfect. "A half-strained villain." Dryden.
• CONSTRAINTIVE
  Constraining; compulsory. "Any constraintive vow." R. Carew.
• RESTRAINEDLY
  With restraint. Hammond.
• SUPERSTRAIN
  To overstrain. Bacon.
• MESEMBRYANTHEMUM
  A genus of herbaceous or suffruticose plants, chiefly natives of South Africa. The leaves are opposite, thick, and f
• UNSTRAINED
  1. Not strained; not cleared or purified by straining; as, unstrained oil or milk. 2. Not forced; easy; natural; as, a unstrained deduction or inference. Hakewill.
• EXANTHEMA
  An efflorescence or discoloration of the skin; an eruption or breaking out, as in measles, smallpox, scarlatina, and the like diseases; -- sometimes limited to eruptions attended with fever. Dunglison.
• CONSTRAINED
  Marked by constraint; not free; not voluntary; embarrassed; as, a constrained manner; a constrained tone.
• CAROL
  together, fr. caroler to dance; perh. from Celtic; cf. Armor. koroll, n., korolla, korolli, v., Ir. car music, turn, circular motion, also 1. A round dance. Chaucer. 2. A song of joy, exultation, or mirth; a lay. The costly feast, the carol,
• UNRESTRAINT
  Freedom from restraint; freedom; liberty; license.