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Ballad

Ballad Meaning & Definition
Ballad Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Ballad?

[n] a narrative poem of popular origin
[n] a narrative song with a recurrent refrain

Synonyms | Synonyms for Ballad: lay

Related Terms | Find terms related to Ballad: alba | anacreontic | anthem | art song | aubade | balada | ballade | ballata | barcarole | blues | blues song | boat song | Brautlied | bridal hymn | brindisi | bucolic | calypso | canso | canticle | canzone | canzonet | canzonetta | carol | cavatina | chanson | chant | chantey | Christmas carol | clerihew | croon | croon song | dirge | dithyramb | ditty | drinking song | eclogue | elegy | English sonnet | epic | epigram | epithalamium | epode | epopee | epopoeia | epos | folk song | georgic | ghazel | haiku | hit | hit tune | Horatian ode | hymeneal | idyll | Italian sonnet | jingle | Kunstlied | lay | Liebeslied | lied | light music | lilt | limerick | love song | love-lilt | lyric | madrigal | matin | minstrel song | minstrelsy | monody | narrative poem | national anthem | nursery rhyme | ode | palinode | pastoral | pastoral elegy | pastorela | pastourelle | Petrarchan sonnet | Pindaric ode | poem | pop | pop music | popular music | popular song | prothalamium | rhyme | rondeau | rondel | roundel | roundelay | Sapphic ode | satire | serena | serenade | serenata | sestina | Shakespearean sonnet | sloka | song | song hit | sonnet | sonnet sequence | tanka | tenso | tenzone | theme song | threnody | torch song | triolet | troubadour poem | verse | verselet | versicle | villanelle | virelay | Volkslied | war song | wedding song

See Also | minstrelsy | poem | song | verse form

Ballad In Webster's Dictionary

\Bal"lad\, n. [OE. balade, OF. balade, F. ballade, fr. Pr. ballada a dancing song, fr. ballare to dance; cf. It. ballata. See 2d {Ball}, n., and {Ballet}.] A popular kind of narrative poem, adapted for recitation or singing; as, the ballad of Chevy Chase; esp., a sentimental or romantic poem in short stanzas.
\Bal"lad\, v. i. To make or sing ballads. [Obs.]
\Bal"lad\, v. t. To make mention of in ballads. [Obs.]

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