Meaning & use
Balladeer
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A singer or composer of ballads, especially sentimental or narrative folk songs.
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The old balladeer performed tales of shipwrecks and lost love with just a guitar.
She became a popular balladeer in the folk clubs of the 1960s.
A note on using this word
Balladeer combines 'ballad' with the agent suffix '-eer,' as found in words like 'engineer' and 'volunteer.'
Words with a similar meaning
minstrelsinger-songwriter
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