ballads
Meaning of ballads
plural noun
- a poem or song narrating a story in short stanzas. Traditional ballads are typically of unknown authorship, having been passed on orally from one generation to the next.
- a slow sentimental or romantic song.
late 15th century (denoting a light, simple song): from Old French balade, from Provençal balada ‘dance, song to dance to’, from balar ‘to dance’, from late Latin ballare (see ball2). The sense ‘narrative poem’ dates from the mid 18th century.
Information about ballads
- It is a name.
- The singular form of ballads is: ballad.
- Languages in which ballads is used:
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Hyphenation of ballads
bal-lads
- It consists of 2 syllables and 7 chars.
- ballads is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables
ballads synonyms
Meaning a short poem or other set of words set to music or meant to be sung:
Meaning a small, crudely built shack:
Meaning a short, simple song:
Meaning an Italian or Provençal song or ballad:
Meaning a piece of writing in which the expression of feelings and ideas is given intensity by particular attention to diction (sometimes involving rhyme), rhythm, and imagery:
Meaning a fictitious or true narrative or story, especially one that is imaginatively recounted:
Meaning a long story of heroic achievement, especially a medieval prose narrative in Old Norse or Old Icelandic:
Words that rhyme with ballads
lads, salads, blads, clads, ironclads, phylloclads, thinclads, triclads, beglads, glads, sallads
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