serenade

noun

1. A love song that is sung directly to one's love interest, especially one performed below the window of a loved one in the evening.

   “From me to thee glad serenades, / Dances for thee I propose saluting thee, adornments and feastings for thee, / And the sights of the open landscape and the high-spread sky are fitting, / And life and the fields, and the huge and thoughtful night.”

   “A lovestruck Romeo sings the streets a serenade / Laying everybody low with a love song that he made”

2. An instrumental composition in several movements.

   ““Eine kleine Nachtmusik” is a well-known serenade written by Mozart.”

verb

1. (transitive)To sing or play a serenade for (someone).

   “The Southampton striker, who also struck a post late on, was being serenaded by the Wembley crowd before the end and should probably brace himself for some Lambert-mania over the coming days but, amid the eulogies, it should not overlook the deficiencies that were evident in another stodgy England performance.”

2. (broadly)To woo someone.