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balladeering

balladeering is the present participle and gerund of balladeer.

Meaning of balladeer

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

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Questions about balladeering

What is balladeering the present participle and gerund of?
Balladeering is the present participle and gerund of balladeer.

Words near balladeering in the dictionary

  1. ballade
  2. ballade royal
  3. balladed
  4. balladeer
  5. balladeered
  6. balladeering
  7. balladeers
  8. ballader
  9. balladers
  10. ballades
  11. balladesque

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