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# A [[singer]], particularly a professional singer who performs [[ballad]]s.
# A [[singer]], particularly a professional singer who performs [[ballad]]s.

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{{trans-top|A singer of ballads}}
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===Verb===
===Verb===

Revision as of 23:17, 23 April 2019

English

Etymology

ballad +‎ -eer

Pronunciation

Noun

balladeer (plural balladeers)

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

Translations

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[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.