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troubador

troubador is the alternative form of troubadour.

Meaning of troubadour

Noun

troubadour (plural troubadours)

  1. An itinerant composer and performer of songs in medieval Europe; a jongleur or travelling minstrel.
    • Sitting in the courtroom ..., their laptops and tablets propped before them, power cables snaking through convoluted adapters, the Twitterati have sight of witnesses at all times – the troubadours, or perhaps the tricoteuses, of the digital revolution.2014 April 24, Alan Cowell, “At Pistorius trial, Twitterati have their day in court”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 17 Apr 2023

Forms of troubador

pluraltroubadors

Questions about troubador

What is troubador the alternative form of?
Troubador is the alternative form of troubadour.

Words near troubador in the dictionary

  1. trotyl
  2. Trotzkism
  3. trou
  4. trou madame
  5. trou-de-loup
  6. troubador
  7. troubadors
  8. troubadour
  9. troubadour fiddle
  10. troubadour fiddles
  11. troubadourish

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Adapted from Wiktionary: troubador (page history and authors); troubadour (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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