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ballatry

ballatry is the obsolete form of balladry.

Meaning of balladry

Noun

balladry (countable and uncountable, plural balladries)

  1. ballads considered as a group; also, the sharing (transmission), making and performing of ballads, ballads as an activity, as a tradition, as a body of work, as a craft, as implying a community of singers, makers and lovers of ballads.

Questions about ballatry

What is ballatry the obsolete form of?
Ballatry is the obsolete form of balladry.

Words near ballatry in the dictionary

  1. ballastmasters
  2. ballasts
  3. ballasts up
  4. Ballater
  5. Ballathie
  6. ballatry
  7. Ballaugh
  8. ballbag
  9. ballbags
  10. ballbearing
  11. ballbearings

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Adapted from Wiktionary: ballatry (page history and authors); balladry (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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