Seeger is an English word with synonyms like minstrel or troubadour. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Seeger meaning
A surname.
Synonyms of Seeger
Using Seeger
- The main meaning on this page is: A surname.
- Useful related words include: pete seeger, peter seeger, folk singer, jongleur.
- In the example corpus, seeger often appears in combinations such as: pete seeger, and seeger, seeger is.
Context around Seeger
- Average sentence length in these examples: 21.4 words
- Position in the sentence: 3 start, 13 middle, 4 end
- Sentence types: 19 statements, 0 questions, 1 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Seeger
- In this selection, "seeger" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 21.4 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, pete, chris, disappointed, weiss, edward and lived stand out and add context to how "seeger" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include and pete seeger and a pete seeger songbook citation. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "seeger" sits close to words such as aapi, aarey and aberdare, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with seeger
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
For the bitterly disappointed Seeger, it’s a sell-out. (10 words)
Names like Dylan, Baez, and Seeger were visitors to his home. (11 words)
How Can I Keep From Singing: The Ballad of Pete Seeger. (11 words)
His Seeger is a gentle but determined soul who has devoted his life to folk music who immediately notices Dylan’s talent and sees him as the conduit to make folk contemporary. (32 words)
There he also meets Pete Seeger (Edward Norton), who introduces him to Alan Lomax (Norbert Leo Butz) and other folk luminaries, which sets him on a relatively smooth rise to fame. (31 words)
Eventually she taught herself guitar from a Pete Seeger songbook, citation but the polio had affected her fingers, and she had to devise dozens of alternative tunings of her own. (30 words)
But it’s based a song about sharecroppers, ‘Penny’s Farm,’ from the 1920s, which Pete Seeger had recorded in 1950! (21 words)
Example sentences (20)
The lawsuit was filed against Thermo Fisher by Attorney Ben Crump and Attorney Chris Seeger of Seeger Weiss on behalf of the Estate of Henrietta Lacks in 2021.
Names like Dylan, Baez, and Seeger were visitors to his home.
But it’s based a song about sharecroppers, ‘Penny’s Farm,’ from the 1920s, which Pete Seeger had recorded in 1950!
For the bitterly disappointed Seeger, it’s a sell-out.
His Seeger is a gentle but determined soul who has devoted his life to folk music who immediately notices Dylan’s talent and sees him as the conduit to make folk contemporary.
There he also meets Pete Seeger (Edward Norton), who introduces him to Alan Lomax (Norbert Leo Butz) and other folk luminaries, which sets him on a relatively smooth rise to fame.
All of which brings us to Pete Seeger’s words of wisdom, which has become a mantra of sorts: All songwriters are links in a chain.
Past recipients of the award include John Mellencamp, Norman Lear, Kris Kristofferson, Mavis Staples and Pete Seeger.
Baez cites Odetta as a primary influence along with Marian Anderson and Pete Seeger.
Cray, Ramblin Man p. 188. From April 1940 Guthrie and Seeger lived together in the Greenwich Village loft of sculptor Harold Ambellan and his fiancee.
Dissonant counterpoint Dissonant counterpoint was originally theorized by Charles Seeger as "at first purely a school-room discipline," consisting of species counterpoint but with all the traditional rules reversed.
Eventually she taught herself guitar from a Pete Seeger songbook, citation but the polio had affected her fingers, and she had to devise dozens of alternative tunings of her own.
He recalled an awkward conversation with Mary Guthrie's mother, in which she asked for Seeger's help to persuade Guthrie to treat her daughter better.
He regularly performed with folk musician Pete Seeger, one of his father's longtime partners.
How Can I Keep From Singing: The Ballad of Pete Seeger.
Miscellaneous Real Audio files featuring Pete Seeger, Arlo Guthrie, Alan Lomax and others.
Most of the verses of this version were by Gordon Dickson ; when Seeger finally discovered this, after the album was issued, he sent royalties on to Dickson.
Musician Pete Seeger founded the Hudson River Sloop Clearwater and the Clearwater Festival to draw attention to the problem.
On the album Precious Friend, Pete Seeger and Arlo Guthrie perform "Old Time Religion", in a filk version.
On the album We Shall Overcome: The Seeger Sessions Springsteen performed folk classics with a folk band, rather than his usual E Street Band.
Common combinations with seeger
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- pete seeger 14×
- and seeger 2×
- seeger is 2×