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Minstrel
| Minstrel Definition And Meaning |
What's The Definition Of Minstrel?
[n] a singer of folk songs
[n] a performer in a minstrel show
[v] celebrate by singing, in the style of minstrels
Synonyms | Synonyms for Minstrel: folk singer |
jongleur |
poet-singer |
troubadour
Related Terms | Find terms related to Minstrel: arch-poet |
artist |
artiste |
ballad maker |
ballad opera |
ballad singer |
balladeer |
balladist |
balladmonger |
ballet |
ballet divertissement |
bard |
beat poet |
Broadway musical |
bucoliast |
chorus show |
comedy ballet |
comic opera |
concert artist |
dance drama |
elegist |
epic poet |
executant |
fili |
folk singer |
folk-rock singer |
gleeman |
grand opera |
idyllist |
imagist |
interpreter |
jongleur |
laureate |
librettist |
light opera |
lyric drama |
maestro |
major poet |
maker |
Meistersinger |
minnesinger |
minor poet |
minstrel show |
minstrelsy |
modernist |
music drama |
music maker |
musical |
musical comedy |
musical stage |
musical theater |
musician |
occasional poet |
odist |
opera |
opera ballet |
opera bouffe |
opera buffa |
operetta |
Parnassian |
pastoral poet |
pastoralist |
performer |
player |
poet |
poet laureate |
poetress |
rhapsode |
rhapsodist |
satirist |
scald |
scop |
serenader |
singer |
Singspiel |
skald |
soloist |
song-and-dance act |
song-play |
sonneteer |
street singer |
strolling minstrel |
symbolist |
troubador |
troubadour |
trouveur |
trovatore |
tunester |
vers libriste |
vers-librist |
virtuosa |
virtuoso |
wait |
wandering minstrel
See Also | corner man |
end man |
Guthrie |
interlocutor |
middleman |
minstrel show |
performer |
performing artist |
Pete Seeger |
Peter Seeger |
Seeger |
sing |
singer |
vocaliser |
vocalist |
vocalizer |
Woodrow Wilson Guthrie |
Woody Guthrie
Minstrel In Webster's Dictionary
\Min"strel\, n. [OE. minstrel, menestral, OF.
menestrel, fr. LL. ministerialis servant, workman (cf.
ministrellus harpist), fr. L. ministerium service. See
{Ministry}, and cf. {Ministerial}.]
In the Middle Ages, one of an order of men who subsisted by
the arts of poetry and music, and sang verses to the
accompaniment of a harp or other instrument; in modern times,
a poet; a bard; a singer and harper; a musician. --Chaucer.
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