song cycle

noun

: a group of related songs designed to form a musical entity

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This song cycle follows the journey of a mother haunted by the challenges of parenthood. — Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 Aug. 2025 Trixies is a song cycle centering on a mythical bar and its working class stiffs and gangsters that’s one-part Cheers, the other The Untouchables. — Jason Pettigrew, SPIN, 9 Mar. 2026 The song cycle, presented by Schubert Club Mix, plays between chamber singing and contemporary production. — Sheila Regan, Twin Cities, 7 Sep. 2025 Who doesn’t revisit this virtually symphonic song cycle about lonely adolescence without considering it one of the 10 best records ever made? — Chris Willman, Variety, 17 May 2026 See All Example Sentences for song cycle

Word History

First Known Use

1870, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of song cycle was in 1870

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