Meaning & use
minstrel
A traveling medieval singer or musician who entertained audiences with songs, poems, and stories.
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A minstrel performed ballads about brave knights in the castle's great hall.
The minstrel wandered from town to town, earning coins for his songs.
A note on using this word
Minstrel evokes medieval European entertainers; it later took on a different, offensive meaning in 19th-century American minstrel shows, so context matters.
Words with a similar meaning
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