balladeer

English

Etymology

From ballad +‎ -eer.

Pronunciation

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• Rhymes: -ɪə(ɹ)

Noun

balladeer (plural balladeers)

1. A singer, particularly a professional singer who performs ballads.

Translations

A singer of ballads

Hungarian: balladaköltő, balladaszerző, balladaénekes Maori: kaiwaiata paki Portuguese: baladeiro

Verb

balladeer (third-person singular simple present balladeers, present participle balladeering, simple past and past participle balladeered)

1. To sing a ballad
   • 2007 October 31, Bernard Holland, “Ives, Master of the Exotic and the Old”, in New York Times‎:

     Revisiting familiar lied texts […] or simply balladeering in The Light That Is Felt, Ives begins songs the way we expect him to and then takes us someplace we would not have thought of going.