Meaning of MINSTREL
| Pronunciation: | | 'minstrul
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- [n] a singer of folk songs
- [n] a performer in a minstrel show
- [v] celebrate by singing, in the style of minstrels
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| | Synonyms: | | folk singer, jongleur, poet-singer, troubadour |
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| | See Also: | | corner man, end man, Guthrie, interlocutor, middleman, minstrel show, performer, performing artist, Pete Seeger, Peter Seeger, Seeger, sing, singer, vocaliser, vocalist, vocalizer, Woodrow Wilson Guthrie, Woody Guthrie | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Min"strel\, n. [OE. minstrel, menestral, OF.
menestrel, fr. LL. ministerialis servant, workman (cf.
ministrellus harpist), fr. L. ministerium service. See
{Ministry}, and cf. {Ministerial}.]
In the Middle Ages, one of an order of men who subsisted by
the arts of poetry and music, and sang verses to the
accompaniment of a harp or other instrument; in modern times,
a poet; a bard; a singer and harper; a musician. --Chaucer.
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| Dream Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | Seeing a minstrel in your dream indicates the start of some new journey or life path. |
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| Easton Bible Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | (Matt. 9:23), a flute-player. Such music was a usual accompaniment of funerals. In 2 Kings 3:15 it denotes a player on a stringed instrument. |
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| | Related Terms: | | arch-poet, artist, artiste, ballad maker, ballad opera, ballad singer, balladeer, balladist, balladmonger, ballet, ballet divertissement, bard, beat poet, Broadway musical, bucoliast, chorus show, comedy ballet, comic opera, concert artist, dance drama, elegist, epic poet, executant, fili, folk singer, folk-rock singer, gleeman, grand opera, idyllist, imagist, interpreter, jongleur, laureate, librettist, light opera, lyric drama, maestro, major poet, maker, Meistersinger, minnesinger, minor poet, minstrel show, minstrelsy, modernist, music drama, music maker, musical, musical comedy, musical stage, musical theater, musician, occasional poet, odist, opera, opera ballet, opera bouffe, opera buffa, operetta, Parnassian, pastoral poet, pastoralist, performer, player, poet, poet laureate, poetress, rhapsode, rhapsodist, satirist, scald, scop, serenader, singer, Singspiel, skald, soloist, song-and-dance act, song-play, sonneteer, street singer, strolling minstrel, symbolist, troubador, troubadour, trouveur, trovatore, tunester, vers libriste, vers-librist, virtuosa, virtuoso, wait, wandering minstrel |
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