Etymology

Borrowed from FrenchCategory:English terms borrowed from French#BALLADECategory:English terms derived from French#BALLADE ballade. Doublet of balada and balladCategory:English doublets#BALLADE.

Pronunciation

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Noun

ballade (plural ballades)Category:English lemmas#BALLADECategory:English nouns#BALLADECategory:English countable nouns#BALLADECategory:English entries with incorrect language header#BALLADECategory:Pages with entries#BALLADECategory:Pages with 4 entries#BALLADE

1. (musicCategory:en:Music#BALLADE) Any of various genres of single-movement musical pieces having lyrical and narrative elements.
   • 1892, Walter Besant, “Prologue: Who is Edmund Gray?”, in The Ivory Gate […], New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, […], →OCLC:

     Thus, when he drew up instructions in lawyer language […] his clerks […] understood him very well. If he had written a love letter, or a farce, or a ballade, or a story, no one, either clerks, or friends, or compositors, would have understood anything but a word here and a word there.

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   • 1915, Richard Le Gallienne, Vanishing Roads and Other Essays:

     "Dead and gone!" as Andrew Lang re-echoes in a sweetly mournful ballade […]

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   • 2007 December 30, Anthony Tommasini, “A Patience to Listen, Alive and Well”, in The New York Times‎, archived from the original on 26 January 2021:

     Even a 10-minute Chopin ballade for piano, let alone Messiaen’s 75-minute “Turangalila Symphony,” tries to grapple with, activate and organize a relatively substantial span of time.

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2. (poetryCategory:en:Poetry#BALLADE) A poem of one or more triplets of seven- or eight-line stanzas, each ending with the same line as refrain, and usually an envoi; more generally, any poem in stanzas of equal length.

See also

• ballad
• Ballade (music) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Abdella

Etymology

From FrenchCategory:Danish terms borrowed from French#BALLADECategory:Danish terms derived from French#BALLADE ballade.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -aːdəCategory:Rhymes:Danish/aːdə#BALLADECategory:Rhymes:Danish/aːdə/3 syllables#BALLADE

Noun

ballade c (singular definite balladen, plural indefinite ballader)Category:Danish lemmas#BALLADECategory:Danish nouns#BALLADECategory:Danish entries with incorrect language header#BALLADECategory:Danish common-gender nouns#BALLADECategory:Pages with entries#BALLADECategory:Pages with 4 entries#BALLADE

1. ballad (narrative poem)
2. (uncountableCategory:Danish uncountable nouns#BALLADE) mischief, hijinks
3. (uncountableCategory:Danish uncountable nouns#BALLADE) trouble, unrest
4. ballad (slow romantic song)

Further reading

• “ballade” in Den Danske Ordbog
• “ballade” in Ordbog over det danske Sprog

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Noun

ballade f (plural balladen or ballades, diminutive balladetje n)Category:Dutch lemmas#BALLADECategory:Dutch nouns#BALLADECategory:Dutch nouns with plural in -en#BALLADECategory:Dutch nouns with plural in -s#BALLADECategory:Dutch nouns with red links in their headword lines#BALLADECategory:Dutch entries with incorrect language header#BALLADECategory:Dutch feminine nouns#BALLADECategory:Pages with entries#BALLADECategory:Pages with 4 entries#BALLADE

1. ballad

References

• “ballade” in Woordenlijst Nederlandse Taal – Officiële Spelling, Nederlandse Taalunie. [the official spelling word list for the Dutch language]

Etymology

Inherited from Old FrenchCategory:French terms inherited from Old French#BALLADECategory:French terms derived from Old French#BALLADE balade, from ProvençalCategory:French terms derived from Provençal#BALLADE balada (“song for dancing”), from balar (“to dance”), from Late LatinCategory:French terms derived from Late Latin#BALLADE ballare, borrowed from, or related to, Ancient GreekCategory:French terms derived from Ancient Greek#BALLADE βαλλίζω (ballízō). Doublet of balléeCategory:French doublets#BALLADE.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ba.lad/Category:French 2-syllable words#BALLADECategory:French terms with IPA pronunciation#BALLADE

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Noun

ballade f (plural ballades)Category:French lemmas#BALLADECategory:French nouns#BALLADECategory:French countable nouns#BALLADECategory:French entries with incorrect language header#BALLADECategory:French feminine nouns#BALLADECategory:Pages with entries#BALLADECategory:Pages with 4 entries#BALLADE

1. ballade (lyric poem)
2. ballad

References

• James A. H. Murray et al., editors (1884–1928), “Ballade”, in A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles (Oxford English Dictionary), London: Clarendon Press, →OCLC.

Further reading

• “ballade”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012