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ballading

ballading is the present participle and gerund of ballad.

Meaning of ballad

Verb

ballad (third-person singular simple present ballads, present participle ballading, simple past and past participle balladed)

  1. (obsolete) To make mention of in ballads.
  2. (intransitive) To compose or sing ballads.

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Questions about ballading

What is ballading the present participle and gerund of?
Ballading is the present participle and gerund of ballad.

Words near ballading in the dictionary

  1. balladier
  2. balladiers
  3. balladin
  4. balladine
  5. balladines
  6. ballading
  7. balladins
  8. balladism
  9. balladist
  10. balladists
  11. balladize

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Adapted from Wiktionary: ballading (page history and authors); ballad (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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