1 a song or tune played or sung at night by a lover outside the window of the woman he loves
2 a gentle piece of music in several parts, usually for a small group of instruments
verb [VN] to sing or play music to sb (as done in the past by a man singing under her window to the woman he loved):
We were serenaded by a string quartet.
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