Definitions for Lullaby

Lullaby lull·a·by

Spelling: [luhl-uh-bahy]
IPA: /ˈlʌl əˌbaɪ/

Lullaby is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 58 anagrams from letters in Lullaby (abllluy).

Definitions for Lullaby

noun

  1. a song used to lull a child to sleep; cradlesong.
  2. any lulling song.

verb (used with object)

  1. to lull with or as with a lullaby.

Origin of Lullaby

1550-60; equivalent to lulla, lulla(y), interjection used in cradlesongs (late Middle English lullai, lulli) + -by, as in bye-bye

Examples for Lullaby

By that time the sounds of the tempest had become a lullaby to me.

Then the snowdrop sang a lullaby about the moss that loved the violet.

So she sang another, a lullaby, that sank to its finish in flattering silence.

But then that night, Dad played it back to me in bed, like a lullaby, my own recorded voice singing myself to sleep.

Down the room a low, mournful wail, almost a lullaby, went on and ceased not.

“Sing me to sleep, lullaby of the leaves”—the phonograph sang.

Washington loves a lullaby—like the one about both sides deserving blame for the decline in bipartisanship.

And I remember, when tired with play, that her mother sang to us an old song, a lullaby.

Now it was the lullaby of the song sparrow or the swamp sparrow.

Oh, this capital knew the Dead March in Saul as a child knows his lullaby!

Word Value for Lullaby
Scrable

12

Words with friends

16

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