Definition of Lullaby

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Definition of Lullaby
	lullaby A song to quiet babes or lull them to sleep; that which quiets. Hence: Good night; good-by. Related Definitions: Good, Good-By, Hence, Lull, Night, Or, Quiet, Sleep, Song, That, Them, To, Which

Lullaby Quotations

Let the rain kiss you. Let the rain beat upon your head with silver liquid drops. Let the rain sing you a lullaby.
Langston Hughes

Music can be used against us as much as it can be used for us. Muzak can put a whole nation to sleep, whereas a lullaby is intended to put a child to sleep in a sweet way.
Holly Near

My music is so often like a lullaby I write to myself to make sense of things I can't tie together, or things I've lost, or things I'll never have.
Stephan Jenkins

The lullaby is the spell whereby the mother attempts to transform herself back from an ogre to a saint.
James Fenton

Ragtime was my lullaby.
Hoagy Carmichael

Lullaby Translations

lullaby in Dutch is wiegelied, slaaplied
lullaby in French is berceuse
lullaby in German is Wiegenlied, Schlaflied, Schlaflied
lullaby in Italian is ninna nanna
lullaby in Norwegian is vuggesang
lullaby in Spanish is arrullo

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