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Noun
/ˈbalədrē/,
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balladries, plural;
  1. Ballads collectively

  2. The art of writing or performing ballads

  1. (ballad) a narrative song with a recurrent refrain
  2. (A Ballads) A Ballads is a ballad compilation album by Ayumi Hamasaki released on March 12, 2003. The initial pressings of the album had four different covers. As of 2007, A Ballads surpassed the million mark with 1,041,000 copies sold.
  3. (Ballad (Namonaki Koi no Uta)) "Ballad (Namonaki Koi no Uta)" is the 10th Japanese single released by alan. The song is the theme song of the same-titled movie starring Tsuyoshi Kusanagi and Yui Aragaki.
  4. (Ballads (David Murray album)) Ballads is an album by David Murray released on the Japanese DIW label. It was released in 1988 and features six quartet performances by Murray with Fred Hopkins, Dave Burrell and Ralph Peterson Jr..
  5. (Ballads (Despina Vandi)) Ballads is the third compilation album by Greek singer Despina Vandi, featuring a collection of ballads and love songs during her time at the Minos EMI label. The album was included as the second disc of the box set Despina Vandi in 2006.
  6. (Ballads (Glee)) "Ballad" is the tenth episode of the American television series Glee. The episode premiered on the Fox network on November 18, 2009, and was written and directed by series creator Brad Falchuk. "Ballad" sees the glee club split into pairs to sing ballads to one another. ...
  7. (Ballads (John Coltrane album)) Ballads is a jazz album by the John Coltrane Quartet. It was recorded in December 1961 and 1962, and released on the Impulse! label in 1962 as A-32 and later AS-32 (the "s" is for "stereo"). ...
  8. (ballad) A long song or poem that tells a story; A slow romantic pop song
  9. (Ballad) a slow tune. Ballad playing is replete with its own idiomatic devices.
  10. (ballad) A poem that tells a story similar to a folk tale or legend and often has a repeated refrain. “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” by Samuel Taylor Coleridge is an example of a ballad.
  11. (Ballad) A fairly short narrative poem written in a song-like stanza form.
  12. (Ballad) relatively short narrative poem, written to be sung, with a simple and dramatic action. The ballads tell of love, death, the supernatural, or a combination of these. Two characteristics of the ballad are incremental repetition and the ballad stanza. ...
  13. (Ballad) A short poem that tells a simple story and has a repeated refrain. Ballads were originally intended to be sung. Early ballads, known as folk ballads, were passed down through generations, so their authors are often unknown. ...
  14. (ballad) a quatrain alternating iambic tetrameter in lines one and three with iambic trimeter in lines two and four. The rhyme scheme of a ballad is abcb.
  15. (BALLAD) A narrative poem which was originally sung and so often includes a refrain. Ballads tend to tell simple stories in simple language. John Keats s La Belle Dame Sans Merci is a literary imitation of the ballad form.
  16. (BALLAD) BALLAT [balad, balat], a song.
  17. (BALLAD) In common parlance, song hits, folk music, and folktales or any song that tells a story are loosely called ballads. In more exact literary terminology, a ballad is a narrative poem consisting of quatrains of iambic tetrameter alternating with iambic trimeter. ...
  18. (BALLAD) To hear a ballad in a dream warns you to guard against making false judgements. For you to be singing a ballad indicates that someone you care about thinks poorly of you.
  19. (BALLAD) short, lyrical narrative
  20. (Ballad) A narrative folksong, usually created by common people and passed on orally.
  21. (Ballad) A popular song, usually about humorous or tragic events. The verse form is four-line stanzas rhyming abab, etc. or four line stanzas in which only the second and fourth lines rhyme. ...
  22. (Ballad) A short poem in song form which tells a story; Folk ballad, popular Ballad (who wrote this def.? - Spomer 5th or Ekstrom 4th)  How have ballads been important to the history and culture of groups of people, tribes, countries, etc.? Mr. McD
  23. (Ballad) A simple song or poem, usually containing news or a story. Ballads were a good way of circulating ideas to people who couldn't read.
  24. (Ballad) A slow song whose rhythmic interpretation differs greatly from the written notes, thus being similar to a classical recitative.
  25. (Ballad) A slow tune, usually with lyrics that tell a story.