balladeer

English edit

Etymology edit

ballad +‎ -eer

Pronunciation edit

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Rhymes: -ɪə(ɹ)

Noun edit

balladeer (plural balladeers)

A singer, particularly a professional singer who performs ballads.

Translations edit

A singer of ballads

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

Verb edit

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

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