Ballads is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for BALLADS in dictionary:

VERB:
• BALLAD, to make ballads about, also BALLANT, BALLAT, BALLET
NOUN:
• a poem or song narrating a story in short stanzas. Traditional ballads are typically of unknown authorship, having been passed on orally from one generation to the next.
• a slow sentimental or romantic song.
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• a narrative poem or song

Words related to BALLADS

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How to use BALLADS in a sentence

• These ballads, or others like them, are clearly the authority upon which the statements of the earlier chroniclers who take notice of Robin Hood are founded.
• The stirring martial spirit of these ballads, their fine workmanship, and their appeal to courage and patriotism made them instantly popular.
• Writing ballads was the solace of his leisure hours.
• An old Scotchman, to whom Sir Walter Scott read some of his collected ballads, expressed the opinion that the ballads were spoilt by printing.
• He was sent early to the usual dame-school, and developed an insatiable appetite for such stories and ballads as were current among the neighbours.
• It owes a good deal to the old verse romances and ballads that so impressed the imagination in those days of the mediaeval revival, but it was itself a far stronger influence.
• The ballads of Northumberland, as all true ballads should do, partake of the characteristics of the district which is their home.
• The English and Scotch ballads were narrative songs, written in a variety of meters, but chiefly in what is known as the ballad stanza.
• He began early to collect manuscript ballads, suits of armor, pieces of old plate, border-horns, and similar relics.
• The Servians still sing ballads which cast a halo of pathetic romance round their great disaster.
• I have seen in former volumes of the MIRROR, specimens of two ancient ballads, and as they are a curiosity, I have sent mine as being, I think, equally so.
• I had the curiosity to inquire whether he had really writ that poem in detached pieces, and sung it about as ballads all over Greece, according to the report which went of him.
• Indeed, their ballads, of all kinds, are innumerable.
• English and Scottish Popular Ballads, edited from the collection of Francis James Child by Helen Child Sargent and George Lyman Kittredge.
• Yet it must be allowed that to evolve an epic out of a single incident is a greater intellectual achievement than to weave one out of a host of ballads.
• It is well known that the subjects of many ballads are common to Scotland, and to the countries of Northern Europe.
• The origin of this kind of refrain is evidently due to the manner in which the ballads were composed.
• Later, in the living-room, Alice sang some old ballads.
• Sometimes they were bits of old Irish ballads that popped into her mind.
• The acceptance of pastoral ballads into this great mass of traditional literature is at least as good evidence of their popular character as that of authorship could be.
• Sir Joshua Reynolds painted his pictures, Burns, a young man of twenty-nine, was busy with his ballads.
• His only great work is his war-songs and patriotic ballads.
• The romances and the ballads may all have been known to Shakespeare in book-form or in tradition.
• The mother of BURNS kindled his genius by reciting the old Scottish ballads, while to his father he attributed his less pleasing cast of character.
• At the age of twelve he had begun a collection of manuscript ballads.
• In style the Spanish ballads are simple, forcible, and direct, but somewhat monotonous in their facility.
• The Robin Hood ballads reflect the popular feeling and breathe the warm genial spirit of the old greenwood adventurers.
• Gertrude The burdens of some ballads, doctor, are exceedingly true.

Similar words containing BALLAD without suffix s

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