Usually means: Musical performance to honor someone.
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  1. serenade: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. serenade: Merriam-Webster
  3. serenade: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. serenade: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. serenade: Collins English Dictionary
  6. serenade: Vocabulary.com
  7. Serenade, serenade: Wordnik
  8. serenade: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. serenade: Wiktionary
  10. serenade: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. serenade: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. serenade: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. serenade: Dictionary.com
  14. serenade: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. serenade: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Serenade (Bruch), Serenade (Hong Kong), Serenade (Katherine Jenkins album), Serenade (Leyster), Serenade (Neil Diamond album), Serenade (Stravinsky), Serenade (Tackey & Tsubasa song), Serenade (ballet), Serenade (disambiguation), Serenade (poetry collection), Serenade (song), Serenade, The Serenade (film), The Serenade: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Serenade: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. serenade: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. serenade: Rhymezone
  20. Serenade: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. serenade: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. serenade: FreeDictionary.org
  23. serenade: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. serenade: TheFreeDictionary.com
  25. Serenade: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)

Art (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Essentials of Music (No longer online)
  2. Virginia Tech Multimedia Music Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. SERENADE: Bobs Byway OF POETIC TERMS

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. serenade: Encyclopedia

(Note: See serenaded as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  A love song that is sung directly to one's love interest, especially one performed below the window of a loved one in the evening.
noun:  (music) An instrumental composition in several movements.
verb:  (transitive) To sing or play a serenade for (someone).

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