Ballad Synonyms

băləd
A narrative poem of popular origin
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. lay
  2. song
  3. ditty
  4. love-song
  5. popular song
  6. folk-song
  7. canzone
  8. narrative poem
  9. lied
  10. poem
  11. serenade
  12. balada
  13. clerihew
  14. ghazel
  15. sonnet
  16. pastorela
  17. pastourelle
  18. sestina
  19. tenso
  20. tenzone
  21. triolet
  22. villanelle
  23. virelay

Words Related to Ballad

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Ballad Sentence Examples

  • The ballad supplied him with the outline of a simple and striking plot.

  • In 1898 he published his powerful Ballad of Reading Gaol.

  • Ballad of a thin man can never get tiresome.

  • Southey made the incident the subject of his ballad of "The Inchcape Rock."

  • The knights lost heavily, but Donald did not plunder Aberdeen (see Elspeth's ballad of Harlaw, in The Antiquary).

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