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balladeer

balladeer noun: a singer, particularly a professional singer who performs ballads.

Noun

balladeer (plural balladeers)

  1. A singer, particularly a professional singer who performs ballads.

Verb

balladeer (third-person singular simple present balladeers, present participle balladeering, simple past and past participle balladeered)

  1. To sing a ballad
    • Revisiting familiar lied texts […] or simply balladeering in The Light That Is Felt, Ives begins songs the way we expect him to and then takes us someplace we would not have thought of going.2007 October 31, Bernard Holland, “Ives, Master of the Exotic and the Old”, in New York Times

balladeer meaning in Bengali

balladeer in Bengali

গায়ক, ব্যালাড, গাথা গাওয়া

Forms of balladeer

Noun
pluralballadeers
Verb
third-person singular presentballadeers
present participleballadeering
past participleballadeered
pastballadeered

Origin of balladeer

From ballad + -eer.

Words that rhyme with balladeer

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Questions about balladeer

What does balladeer mean?
Balladeer means a singer, particularly a professional singer who performs ballads.
What is balladeer in Bengali?
Balladeer in Bengali is গায়ক, ব্যালাড, গাথা গাওয়া. See Balladeer meaning in Bengali.
What part of speech is balladeer?
Balladeer can be a noun or a verb.
What is the plural of balladeer?
The plural of balladeer is balladeers.

Words near balladeer in the dictionary

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

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: balladeer (page history and authors); balladeer (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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