The meaning of Minstrel

Minstrel – definition

noun
A medieval singer or musician, especially one who sang or recited lyric or heroic poetry to a musical accompaniment for the nobility.
Usage examples:
They listened to the minstrels singing songs of knightly prowess
Synonims:
Musician Singer Balladeer Bard Troubadour Jongleur Joculator
noun
A member of a band of entertainers, typically white actors with blackened faces, who performed in a type of stage entertainment prevalent in the us in the 19th and early 20th centuries, featuring songs, dances, and formulaic comic routines based on stereotyped depictions of black americans.
Usage examples:
The exaggerated dialect of blackface minstrels

noun
A travelling musician and singer common between the 11th and 15th centuries
Usage examples:
A wandering minstrel

Minstrel translation into English

Minstrel: translate from English into Chinese

吟游诗人, 歌手, 音乐家

Minstrel: translate from English into Dutch

Minstreel, Negerzanger

Minstrel: translate from English into French

Ménestrel, Jongleur, Trouvère

Minstrel: translate from English into German

Minnesänger, Spielmann, Sänger, Barde, Musikant, Bänkelsänger, Fahrender sänger

Minstrel: translate from English into Hindi

भाट, कवि, बन्दी, गवैया, चारण

Minstrel: translate from English into Italian

Menestrello, Giullare

Minstrel: translate from English into Korean

시인, 민스트럴 쇼, 음유악인, 중세의 음유악인

Minstrel: translate from English into Russian

Менестрель, Певец, Поэт, Исполнитель негритянских песен

Minstrel: translate from English into Spanish

Juglar, Trovador, Cantor

Word origin

Middle English: from Old French menestral ‘entertainer, servant’, via Provençal from late Latin ministerialis ‘servant’ (see ministerial).

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Minstrel – similar words

minstrels

noun
A medieval singer or musician, especially one who sang or recited lyric or heroic poetry to a musical accompaniment for the nobility.
Usage examples:
They listened to the minstrels singing songs of knightly prowess

noun
A travelling musician and singer common between the 11th and 15th centuries
Usage examples:
A wandering minstrel

All meanings and translations of Minstrels

Minstrel synonims

balladeer

noun
A singer or composer of ballads.
Usage examples:
Songdog's delivery of music and lyric is reminiscent of the old-school '70s singer/songwriter balla…

All meanings and translations of Balladeer

bard

noun
A poet, traditionally one reciting epics and associated with a particular oral tradition.
Usage examples:
Our national bard, robert burns

verb
Cover (meat or game) with rashers of fat bacon.
Usage examples:
The venison was barded and marinated

All meanings and translations of Bard

joculator

noun
A professional jester or minstrel.

All meanings and translations of Joculator

jongleur

noun
An itinerant minstrel.
Usage examples:
Fo had developed the play - a series of episodes in the manner of mystery plays - over 15 to 20 yea…

All meanings and translations of Jongleur

musician

noun
A person who plays a musical instrument, especially as a profession, or is musically talented.
Usage examples:
Your father was a fine musician

noun
A person who is skilled in playing music, usually as a job
Usage examples:
A jazz/classical/rock musician

All meanings and translations of Musician

singer

noun
A person who sings, especially professionally.
Usage examples:
A pop singer

noun
A person who sings, esp. someone whose job is singing

All meanings and translations of Singer

troubadour

noun
A french medieval lyric poet composing and singing in provençal in the 11th to 13th centuries, especially on the theme of courtly love.
Usage examples:
The term buskers originates from an old french word for troubadours - minstrels, love singers or po…

noun
A male poet and singer who travelled around southern france and northern italy between the 11th and 13th centuries entertaining rich people

All meanings and translations of Troubadour

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