SUNG

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

IPA (US):

 Dictionary entry overview: What does Sung mean? 

• SUNG (noun)
  The noun SUNG has 1 sense:

1. the imperial dynasty of China from 960 to 1279; noted for art and literature and philosophy

  Familiarity information: SUNG used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SUNG (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The imperial dynasty of China from 960 to 1279; noted for art and literature and philosophy

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

Song; Song dynasty; Sung; Sung dynasty

Hypernyms ("Sung" is a kind of...):

dynasty (a sequence of powerful leaders in the same family)

 Context examples 

At Queenstown one of my new acquaintances left us, Mr. Lennox, and when I said something about the Lakes of Killarney, he sighed, and sung, with a look at me...

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

He said, when he had sung it, he would give us “Woman!”

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

They had sung together once or twice, it appeared, at Weymouth.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

Then the king said, “You have sung so well, that I will give you my daughter for your wife.”

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

Why couldn’t one of you, just one of you, get me a knife when I sung out?

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

And now set in a fell and fierce fight, one of a thousand of which no chronicler has spoken and no poet sung.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Miss Carteret was very anxious to have a general idea of what was next to be sung.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

I trust that you will never hear them so sung, with tears upon rugged cheeks, and catchings of the breath from strong men.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

A long grace was said and a hymn sung; then a servant brought in some tea for the teachers, and the meal began.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

She might well be sung by that chap, Swinburne.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)