troubadour
UK/ˈtruːbəˌdɔː//ˈtrubəˌdɔr/
troubadour noun: an itinerant composer and performer of songs in medieval Europe; a jongleur or travelling minstrel.
Noun
troubadour (plural troubadours)
- 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
- “"Not a human, not yet a vampire," to paraphrase one of your contemporary musical troubadours.”2023 August 17, Jeremy Levick & Rajat Suresh, “Hybrid Creatures” (0:18 from the start), in What We Do in the Shadows, season 5, episode 7, spoken by Laszlo Cravensworth (Matt Berry)
troubadour meaning in Marathi, Malayalam and Arabic
troubadour in Marathi
- an itinerant performer of songs
- ट्रुबाडूर ṭrubāḍūr
troubadour in Malayalam
- singer, minstrel, balladeer
- ഗായകകവി, ഗായകൻ, വന്ദി, സ്തുതിപാഠകൻ, നർത്തകൻ, നാടോടിപ്പാട്ടുകാരൻ
troubadour in Arabic
- an itinerant performer of songs
- تْرُوبَادُور trūbādūr
Forms of troubadour
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Origin of troubadour
From Old Occitan trobar (“to find”) via Old French troubadour. Piecewise doublet of trouveur.
Words formed from troubadour
Phrases with troubadour
Questions about troubadour
- What does troubadour mean?
- Troubadour means an itinerant composer and performer of songs in medieval Europe; a jongleur or travelling minstrel.
- What is troubadour in Marathi?
- Troubadour in Marathi is ट्रुबाडूर (ṭrubāḍūr). See Troubadour meaning in Marathi.
- What part of speech is troubadour?
- Troubadour is a noun.
- How do you pronounce troubadour?
- Troubadour is pronounced /ˈtruːbəˌdɔː/ (UK).
- What is the plural of troubadour?
- The plural of troubadour is troubadours.
Words near troubadour in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: troubadour (page history and authors); troubadour (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). 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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