sung

1. participlepastpast participle of sing
2. archaicdialectalpastsimple past of sing

   It was one of those serene and lovely mornings that sometimes succeed a storm. The birds sung loud and cheerily […]

   1862, Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Lady Audley's Secret

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   And they sung as it were a new song before the throne, and before the four beasts, and the elders, and no man could learn that song but the hundred and forty and four thousand, which were redeemed from the earth.

   1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Revelation 14:3

   Lulled by the Syren-song that my own heart sung to me, with eyes shut to all sight, and ears closed to all sound of danger, I drifted nearer and nearer to the fatal rocks.

   1859, Wilkie Collins, The Woman in White

   The August Prince's First Officer […] sung a song; although it was unaccompanied by dancing it was very delightful.

   1920, Annie Shepley Omori & Kochi Doi, "The Diary of Murasaki Shikibu" (translated), Diaries of Court Ladies of Old Japan, page 105

plural Sungs · alternative Song · alternative Soong

1. A surname from Mandarin.

alternative Song · alternative Soong

1. alternativeuncountableAlternative form of Song (Chinese dynasty)

   Fish were produced in Hu-chou for sale at the Southern Sung capital.

   1970 [1968], Shiba Yoshinobu, translated by Mark Elvin, Commerce and Society in Sung China, published 1992, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 102

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   At present the metropolitan area of Kuang-chou City alone comprises some 1,500,000 people or twice that of the Sung period for all of the two provinces.

   1954, Herold J. Wiens, Han Chinese Expansion in South China, Shoe String Press, published 1967, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 143

   The Sung dynasty was the great Classical Age and it is on this era that the emphasis in this book falls.

   1976, W.B.R. Neave-Hill, Chinese Ceramics, New York: St. Martin's Press, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 10

   Today in Peking we repeat a phrase to our allies from the Sung dynasty, seven hundred years old. 'We are as close to you as the lips to the teeth. If the lips are gone, our teeth must chatter with cold.'

   1968, Edward S. Aarons, Assignment—Nuclear Nude, Fawcett Publications, →OCLC, page 135

   PICARD: Lutan, we are aware of many of your planet's achievements, and its unique similarity to an ancient Earth culture we all admire. On behalf of the Federation, therefore, I would like to present this token of our gratitude and friendship. From China's Sung Dynasty, Fourteenth Century. DATA: Thirteenth Century, sir. PICARD: Ah yes, indeed.

   1987 October 12, Patrick Stewart, Brent Spiner, Code of Honor (Star Trek: The Next Generation) (Science Fiction), Paramount Domestic Television, →OCLC

   The animated scroll was based on the work of 12th century Sung Dynasty artist Zhang Zeduan (張擇端), whose lively portrayal of the daily life of ordinary people in the capital city of the Northern Sung Dynasty — Bianjing (Kaifeng) — has captured the fascination of people for generations.

   2011 May 30, “Taiwan News Quick Take”, in Taipei Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 02 Jun 2011, Taiwan News, page 2