serenade

ser|enade /s'erɪn'eɪd/ (serenades serenading serenaded)
1 [VERB] V n
If one person serenades another, they sing or play a piece of music for them. Traditionally men did this outside the window of the woman they loved.
In the interval a blond boy dressed in white serenaded the company on the flute...
[N-COUNT]
Serenade is also a noun.
Placido Domingo sang his serenade of love.
2 [N-COUNT] oft in names
In classical music, a serenade is a piece in several parts written for a small orchestra.
...Vaughan Williams's Serenade to Music.

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