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ballade

ballade noun: any of various genres of single-movement musical pieces having lyrical and narrative elements.

Noun

ballade (plural ballades)

  1. Any of various genres of single-movement musical pieces having lyrical and narrative elements.
    • Thus, when he drew up instructions in lawyer language […] his clerks […] understood him very well. If he had written a love letter, or a farce, or a ballade, or a story, no one, either clerks, or friends, or compositors, would have understood anything but a word here and a word there.1892, Walter Besant, “Prologue: Who is Edmund Gray?”, in The Ivory Gate […], New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, […], →OCLC
    • "Dead and gone!" as Andrew Lang re-echoes in a sweetly mournful ballade[…1915, Richard Le Gallienne, Vanishing Roads and Other Essays
  2. A poem of one or more triplets of seven- or eight-line stanzas, each ending with the same line as refrain, and usually an envoi; more generally, any poem in stanzas of equal length.

ballade meaning in Bengali

ballade in Bengali

এক ধরনের কবিতা, সঙ্গীত রচনা

Forms of ballade

pluralballades

Origin of ballade

Borrowed from French ballade. Doublet of balada and ballad.

Words formed from ballade

Questions about ballade

What does ballade mean?
Ballade means any of various genres of single-movement musical pieces having lyrical and narrative elements.
What is ballade in Bengali?
Ballade in Bengali is এক ধরনের কবিতা, সঙ্গীত রচনা. See Ballade meaning in Bengali.
What part of speech is ballade?
Ballade is a noun.
What is the plural of ballade?
The plural of ballade is ballades.

Words near ballade in the dictionary

  1. ballad
  2. ballad opera
  3. ballad operas
  4. ballad-monger
  5. ballad-mongers
  6. ballade
  7. ballade royal
  8. balladed
  9. balladeer
  10. balladeered
  11. balladeering

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Adapted from Wiktionary: ballade (page history and authors); ballade (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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