sérénade
French, noun
sérénade is spelled S-É-R-É-N-A-D-E (8 letters) and appears about once in every 2 million words in written French, the 47,227th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Sérénade is a French feminine noun meaning “serenade” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive of sérénader. With an accent, sérénadé is a different word: “past participle of sérénader”. The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Concert de voix ou d’instruments, que l’on donne le soir, la nuit, dans la rue sous les fenêtres de quelqu’un”.
What does sérénade mean in English?
noun
- 1
feminineserenade
verb
- 1
first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
- 2
second-person singular imperative
verb
- 1
past participle of sérénader
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Concert de voix ou d’instruments, que l’on donne le soir, la nuit, dans la rue sous les fenêtres de quelqu’un. 2. Composition musicale, le plus souvent instrumentale, de forme libre.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of sérénade
- sérénades plural
- sérénadée feminine
- sérénadés masculine plural
- sérénadées feminine plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to sérénade
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is sérénade in French?
sérénade appears about once in every 2 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).