Aubade Definition

ō-bäd
noun
A song or instrumental composition concerning, accompanying, or evoking daybreak.
American Heritage
A piece of music composed for performance in the morning.
Webster's New World
A poem or song of or about lovers separating at dawn.
American Heritage
A lyric love poem about or suitable for dawn.
Webster's New World

A song or poem greeting or evoking the dawn.

Wiktionary

Other Word Forms of Aubade

Noun

Singular:
aubade
Plural:
aubades

Origin of Aubade

  • French from Old French albade from Old Provençal albada from alba dawn, aubade from Latin feminine of albus white albho- in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • Borrowing from French, from Old French albade, from Latin albus (“white”).

    From Wiktionary

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