Noun: ballad
| Singular | ballad |
| Plural | ballads |
Sample Sentences
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The poet composed a ballad praising the heroic exploits of the fallen commander.
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Of all varieties of poetry, the Ballad, in the form which it affects among us, in distinction to other countries, is, perhaps, one of the most attractive. [1882, John Ashton, “Origin of Ballads”, in John Skelton, A Ballade of the Scottysshe Kynge. […], London: Elliot Stock, […], →OCLC, page 1:]
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A wandering minstrel I — / A thing of shreds and patches, / Of ballads, songs and snatches, / And dreamy lullaby! [1885, Gilbert and Sullivan, The Mikado, act 1:]
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On Friday nights, the roller rink had a time-block called "Lovers' Lap" when they played nothing but ballads on the overhead speakers.
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He was playing the guitar and singing a ballad to his girlfriend while she was playing the drums.
Nouns inflected like ballad
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From French ballade, from Old Occitan ballada (“poem for a dance”), from Late Latin ballare. Doublet of balada and ballade. See: French Nouns '
ballade'.
Verbs referencing "ballad"
Hungarian Nouns
ballada.