balladeer
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8.2
- noun
- /ˌbæl.əˈdɪr/
:
baladista
- The talented balladeer captivated the audience with heartfelt stories in his songs.
- a romantic balladeer
- a premier romantic balladeer
- an R&B balladeer
Examples
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This was the kind of company my obscure Cork balladeer and essayist kept in London, Paris, and Florence.
Academic text (2015) -
Typifying this brand of music was a balladeer, Bles Bridges.
Academic text (2004) -
What kind of balladeer was he?
Fiction book (2002) -
This must go back to his days as a balladeer.
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Together we're the desert balladeers!
Fiction book (2002) -
Balladeer to the grandest courts in all the land!
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Leonard Cohen, the balladeer?
Fiction book (1993) -
However, it quickly becomes apparent that the author is fully aware of his temporal proximity to these events and of his own authority as a balladeer.
Academic text (1997) -
My father had taught me the word "balladeer" one night as we listened to the radio, and though I didn't have language then for my deepest feelings, I saw myself as a quiet observer of the world's disharmonies: a highway's comings and goings, a mother's unhappiness.
Fiction book (2002) -
Admittedly, it's not a narrative film, just a series of vignettes highlighting songs by the Belgian balladeer, who appears briefly in places and sings one of his own songs ("Me me quitte pas").
Blog text (18)
Synonyms
787
1.0
A person who uses their voice to make music, often on stage
37
3.0
A person who sings, often in a band or group
13
9.6
A person in the Middle Ages who wrote and sang songs about love and knights
13
7.0
A singer, usually male, who sings soft, smooth love songs
7
3.0
A singer who performs traditional songs from a local culture
6
9.6
A traveling singer who told stories and played music in medieval times
4
6.1
A woman who sings popular songs
3
3.8
A person who sings and often writes simple traditional songs, usually with a guitar
1
6.0
A person who sings or writes music
1
7.1
A person who sings using their voice as a musical instrument
A person who writes and sings folk songs that tell stories
A person who plays music for someone outside at night to show love
A singer who sings German classical songs with piano
How Narrative
- Literature
30
9.8
- Literature
13
9.6
3
8.2
7
3.0
787
1.0
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word balladeer comes from ballad, a story-song, plus the ending -eer meaning 'person who', so a balladeer is a person who sings or performs ballads. The root of ballad once meant 'to dance', so think of a balladeer as someone who brings stories to life with song.