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power ballad

power ballad noun: an emotional rock song, generally focused on love, delivered with powerful vocals.

Noun

power ballad (plural power ballads)

  1. An emotional rock song, generally focused on love, delivered with powerful vocals.
    • Incidentally, Mandy Moore choreographed this dance routine to Bonnie Tyler's iconic power ballad “Total Eclipse of the Heart.”2019, Sherril Dodds, editor, The Oxford Handbook of Dance and Competition, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 396

Forms of power ballad

pluralpower ballads

Questions about power ballad

What does power ballad mean?
Power ballad means an emotional rock song, generally focused on love, delivered with powerful vocals.
What part of speech is power ballad?
Power ballad is a noun.
What is the plural of power ballad?
The plural of power ballad is power ballads.

Words near power ballad in the dictionary

  1. power alleys
  2. power animal
  3. power animals
  4. power assist
  5. power balance
  6. power ballad
  7. power ballads
  8. power bank
  9. power banks
  10. power bar
  11. power bars

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