minstrel as a noun: - 1
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as a verb: - 1
minstrel
noun
1 minstrel
A singer of folk songs.
synonyms: folk singer, jongleur, poet-singer, troubadour.
Roget 416:
musician,
artiste,
performer,
player,
minstrel;
bard
etc.
(poet)
597;
[specific types of musicians]
accompanist,
accordionist,
instrumentalist,
organist,
pianist,
violinist,
flautist;
harper,
fiddler,
fifer†,
trumpeter,
piper,
drummer;
catgut scraper.
band,
orchestral waits.
vocalist,
melodist;
singer,
warbler;
songster,
chaunter†,
chauntress†,
songstress;
cantatrice†.
choir,
quire,
chorister;
chorus,
chorus singer;
liedertafel [G.].
nightingale,
philomel†,
thrush;
siren;
bulbul,
mavis;
Pierides;
sacred nine;
Orpheus,
Apollo†,
the Muses Erato,
Euterpe,
Terpsichore;
tuneful nine,
tuneful quire.
composer
etc.
413.
performance,
execution,
touch,
expression,
solmization†.
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Roget 597:
poetry,
poetics,
poesy,
Muse,
Calliope,
tuneful Nine,
Parnassus,
Helicon†,
Pierides,
Pierian spring.
versification,
rhyming,
making verses;
prosody,
orthometry†.
poem;
epic,
epic poem;
epopee†,
epopoea,
ode,
epode†,
idyl,
lyric,
eclogue,
pastoral,
bucolic,
dithyramb,
anacreontic†,
sonnet,
roundelay,
rondeau [Fr.],
rondo,
madrigal,
canzonet†,
cento†,
monody [Slang],
elegy;
amoebaeum,
ghazal†,
palinode.
dramatic poetry,
lyric poetry;
opera;
posy,
anthology;
disjecta membra poetae song [Lat.],
ballad,
lay;
love song,
drinking song,
war song,
sea song;
lullaby;
music
etc.
415;
nursery rhymes.
[Bad poetry]
doggerel,
Hudibrastic verse†,
prose run mad;
macaronics†;
macaronic verse†,
leonine verse;
runes.
canto,
stanza,
distich,
verse,
line,
couplet,
triplet,
quatrain;
strophe,
antistrophe†.
verse,
rhyme,
assonance,
crambo†,
meter,
measure,
foot,
numbers,
strain,
rhythm;
accentuation
etc.
(voice)
580;
dactyl,
spondee,
trochee,
anapest
&c.;
hexameter,
pentameter;
Alexandrine;
anacrusis†,
antispast†,
blank verse,
ictus.
elegiacs
etc.
adj.;
elegiac verse,
elegaic meter,
elegaic poetry.
poet,
poet laureate;
laureate;
bard,
lyrist†,
scald,
skald†,
troubadour,
trouvere [Fr.];
minstrel;
minnesinger,
meistersinger [G.];
improvisatore†;
versifier,
sonneteer;
rhymer,
rhymist†,
rhymester;
ballad monger,
runer†;
poetaster;
genus irritabile vatum [Lat.].
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Dutch: minnezanger, minstreel, troubadour, trouvère
2 minstrel
A performer in a minstrel show.
Dutch: speelman
verb
1 minstrel
Celebrate by singing, in the style of minstrels.
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