Having found a suitable human host, an ambitious Cuba Libre sang a beautiful ballad at the karaoke bar.
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Ballad
//ˈbæləd//
Synonyms for "ballad" (145 found)
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Closest matches (29)
Strong matches (44)
Related words (72)
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4 entriesSynonyms
1 entriesderived
17 entriesShowing 16 of 17 words.
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3 entriesrelated to
8 entriesTranslations
90 translations across 60 languages.
Albanian
2 entries- baladë noun (narrative poem)
- baladë noun (slow romantic song)
Arabic
1 entries- بَالَاد noun (narrative poem)
Armenian
1 entries- վիպերգ noun (narrative poem)
Azerbaijani
1 entries- ballada noun (narrative poem)
Belarusian
1 entries- бала́да noun (narrative poem)
Bulgarian
2 entries- бала́да noun (narrative poem)
- бала́да noun (slow romantic song)
Catalan
1 entries- balada noun (narrative poem)
Chinese Mandarin
4 entries- 歌謠 /歌谣 noun (narrative poem)
- 民謠 /民谣 noun (narrative poem)
- 短歌 noun (narrative poem)
- 芭樂 /芭乐 noun (slow romantic song)
Czech
1 entries- balada noun (narrative poem)
Danish
1 entries- ballade noun (narrative poem)
Dutch
1 entries- ballade noun (narrative poem)
Esperanto
1 entries- balado noun (narrative poem)
Estonian
1 entries- ballaad noun (narrative poem)
Faroese
1 entries- kvæði noun (narrative poem)
Finnish
2 entries- balladi noun (narrative poem)
- balladi noun (slow romantic song)
French
2 entries- ballade noun (narrative poem)
- ballade noun (slow romantic song)
Galician
1 entries- balada noun (narrative poem)
Georgian
1 entries- ბალადა noun (narrative poem)
German
2 entries- Ballade noun (narrative poem)
- Ballade noun (slow romantic song)
Greek
2 entries- μπαλάντα noun (narrative poem)
- μπαλάντα noun (slow romantic song)
Hebrew
1 entries- בָּלָדָה noun (narrative poem)
Hindi
1 entries- गाथागीत noun (narrative poem)
Hungarian
1 entries- ballada noun (narrative poem)
Ido
1 entries- balado noun (narrative poem)
Indonesian
1 entries- balada noun (narrative poem)
Irish
1 entries- bailéad noun (narrative poem)
Italian
2 entries- ballata noun (narrative poem)
- ballata noun (slow romantic song)
Japanese
3 entries- バラード noun (narrative poem)
- 歌謡 noun (narrative poem)
- 民謡 noun (narrative poem)
Kazakh
1 entries- баллада noun (narrative poem)
Korean
3 entries- 민요 noun (narrative poem)
- 발라드 noun (narrative poem)
- 발라드 noun (slow romantic song)
Kyrgyz
1 entries- баллада noun (narrative poem)
Latvian
1 entries- balāde noun (narrative poem)
Lithuanian
1 entries- baladė noun (narrative poem)
Macedonian
1 entries- балада noun (narrative poem)
Malay
1 entries- balada noun (narrative poem)
Māori
2 entries- ruri paki noun (narrative poem)
- waiata paki noun (narrative poem)
Norwegian
1 entries- vise noun (narrative poem)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- ballade noun (narrative poem)
Occitan
1 entries- balada noun (narrative poem)
Persian
2 entries- تصنیف noun (slow romantic song)
- چکامه noun (narrative poem)
Polish
3 entries- ballada noun (narrative poem)
- ballada noun (slow romantic song)
- balladować verb (to compose or sing ballads)
Portuguese
2 entries- balada noun (narrative poem)
- balada noun (slow romantic song)
Romanian
1 entries- baladă noun (narrative poem)
Russian
3 entries- балла́да noun (narrative poem)
- балла́да noun (slow romantic song)
- рома́нс noun (slow romantic song)
Serbo-Croatian
2 entries- baláda noun (narrative poem)
- бала́да noun (narrative poem)
Slovak
1 entries- balada noun (narrative poem)
Slovene
1 entries- balada noun (narrative poem)
Spanish
2 entries- balada noun (narrative poem)
- balada noun (slow romantic song)
Swedish
1 entries- ballad noun (narrative poem)
Tagalog
1 entries- tulamat noun (narrative poem)
Tajik
1 entries- баллада noun (narrative poem)
Thai
3 entries- บัลลาด noun (narrative poem)
- บัลลาด noun (slow romantic song)
- ลำนำนิทาน noun (narrative poem)
Turkish
2 entries- ezgi noun (narrative poem)
- koşuk noun (narrative poem)
Udmurt
2 entries- баллада noun (narrative poem)
- крезьмадь noun (narrative poem)
Ukrainian
2 entries- бала́да noun (narrative poem)
- бала́да noun (slow romantic song)
Uzbek
1 entries- ballada noun (narrative poem)
Venetan
1 entries- bałada noun (narrative poem)
Vietnamese
1 entries- dân ca noun (narrative poem)
Welsh
2 entries- baled noun (narrative poem)
- baled noun (slow romantic song)
Yiddish
2 entries- באַלאַד noun (narrative poem)
- באַלאַדע noun (narrative poem)
Sample sentences
14 total sentences available.
Evidently, no one can resist reading the ballad "Chavayn" by Olyk Ipay.
Source: tatoeba (2878063)
An ancient ballad on the subject, which, however, bears marks of having been tampered with, states, on the other hand, that Gradlon led his people into extravagances of every kind, and that Dahut received the key from him, the misuse of which precipitated the catastrophe.
Source: tatoeba (8312306)
Dahut, the ballad continues, became a mermaid and haunted the waters which roll over the site of the city where she loved and feasted.
Source: tatoeba (8312307)
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