Die woordeboekbetekenis van die woord "songster" is 'n persoon wat sing, veral professioneel of as 'n stokperdjie. Dit kan ook verwys na 'n voël wat bekend is vir sy musikale of melodieuse sang, soos 'n kanarie of 'n nagtegaal.
There was the honest cock robin, the favorite game of stripling sportsmen, with its loud querulous note and the twittering blackbirds flying in sable clouds and the golden-winged woodpecker with his crimson crest, his broad black gorget, and splendid plumage and the cedar bird, with its red-tipt wings and yellow-tipt tail and its little monteiro cap of feathers and the blue jay, that noisy coxcomb, in his gay light blue coat and white underclothes, screaming and chattering, nodding and bobbing and bowing, and pretending to be on good terms with every songster of the grove.
