Minstrel

//ˈmɪnstɹ(ə)l//

Synonyms for "minstrel" (127 found)

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Noun(1 words)
folk singer

Related words (63)

Noun(1 words)
poet-singer

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Translations

37 translations across 25 languages.

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Belarusian

1 entries
  • менестрэ́ль noun (medieval (especially travelling) entertainer who would recite and sing poetry, often to their own musical accompaniment)

Bourguignon

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  • ménétrei noun (medieval (especially travelling) entertainer who would recite and sing poetry, often to their own musical accompaniment)

Bulgarian

1 entries
  • менестре́л noun (medieval (especially travelling) entertainer who would recite and sing poetry, often to their own musical accompaniment)

Catalan

2 entries
  • joglar noun (medieval (especially travelling) entertainer who would recite and sing poetry, often to their own musical accompaniment)
  • menestrer noun (medieval (especially travelling) entertainer who would recite and sing poetry, often to their own musical accompaniment)

Chinese Mandarin

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  • 吟遊詩人 /吟游诗人 noun (medieval (especially travelling) entertainer who would recite and sing poetry, often to their own musical accompaniment)

Czech

1 entries
  • minstrel noun (medieval (especially travelling) entertainer who would recite and sing poetry, often to their own musical accompaniment)

Dutch

2 entries
  • minstreel noun (medieval (especially travelling) entertainer who would recite and sing poetry, often to their own musical accompaniment)
  • speelman noun (medieval (especially travelling) entertainer who would recite and sing poetry, often to their own musical accompaniment)

Finnish

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  • kiertelevä laulaja noun (medieval (especially travelling) entertainer who would recite and sing poetry, often to their own musical accompaniment)
  • minstreli noun (medieval (especially travelling) entertainer who would recite and sing poetry, often to their own musical accompaniment)

French

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  • ménestrel noun (medieval (especially travelling) entertainer who would recite and sing poetry, often to their own musical accompaniment)
  • ménétrier noun (medieval (especially travelling) entertainer who would recite and sing poetry, often to their own musical accompaniment)

Galician

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  • segrel noun (medieval (especially travelling) entertainer who would recite and sing poetry, often to their own musical accompaniment)
  • xogral noun (medieval (especially travelling) entertainer who would recite and sing poetry, often to their own musical accompaniment)
  • xograr noun (medieval (especially travelling) entertainer who would recite and sing poetry, often to their own musical accompaniment)

Georgian

1 entries
  • მენესტრელი noun (medieval (especially travelling) entertainer who would recite and sing poetry, often to their own musical accompaniment)

German

3 entries
  • Minnesänger noun (medieval (especially travelling) entertainer who would recite and sing poetry, often to their own musical accompaniment)
  • Spielmann noun (medieval (especially travelling) entertainer who would recite and sing poetry, often to their own musical accompaniment)
  • Troubadour noun (medieval (especially travelling) entertainer who would recite and sing poetry, often to their own musical accompaniment)

Greek

1 entries
  • μενεστρέλος noun (medieval (especially travelling) entertainer who would recite and sing poetry, often to their own musical accompaniment)

Hungarian

1 entries
  • vándorénekes noun (medieval (especially travelling) entertainer who would recite and sing poetry, often to their own musical accompaniment)

Italian

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  • menestrello noun (medieval (especially travelling) entertainer who would recite and sing poetry, often to their own musical accompaniment)

Japanese

2 entries
  • ミンストレル noun (medieval (especially travelling) entertainer who would recite and sing poetry, often to their own musical accompaniment)
  • 吟遊詩人 noun (medieval (especially travelling) entertainer who would recite and sing poetry, often to their own musical accompaniment)

Korean

2 entries
  • 민스트럴 noun (medieval (especially travelling) entertainer who would recite and sing poetry, often to their own musical accompaniment)
  • 음유시인 noun (medieval (especially travelling) entertainer who would recite and sing poetry, often to their own musical accompaniment)

Old English

1 entries
  • sċop noun (medieval (especially travelling) entertainer who would recite and sing poetry, often to their own musical accompaniment)

Polish

1 entries
  • minstrel noun (medieval (especially travelling) entertainer who would recite and sing poetry, often to their own musical accompaniment)

Portuguese

2 entries
  • jogral noun (medieval (especially travelling) entertainer who would recite and sing poetry, often to their own musical accompaniment)
  • menestrel noun (medieval (especially travelling) entertainer who would recite and sing poetry, often to their own musical accompaniment)

Romanian

1 entries
  • menestrel noun (medieval (especially travelling) entertainer who would recite and sing poetry, often to their own musical accompaniment)

Russian

1 entries
  • менестре́ль noun (medieval (especially travelling) entertainer who would recite and sing poetry, often to their own musical accompaniment)

Spanish

2 entries
  • juglar noun (medieval (especially travelling) entertainer who would recite and sing poetry, often to their own musical accompaniment)
  • ministril noun (medieval (especially travelling) entertainer who would recite and sing poetry, often to their own musical accompaniment)

Ukrainian

1 entries
  • менестре́ль noun (medieval (especially travelling) entertainer who would recite and sing poetry, often to their own musical accompaniment)

Walloon

1 entries
  • mestré noun (medieval (especially travelling) entertainer who would recite and sing poetry, often to their own musical accompaniment)

Sample sentences

22 total sentences available.

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The dining-room which opened out of the hall was a place of shadow and gloom. It was a long chamber with a step separating the daïs where the family sat from the lower portion reserved for their dependents. At one end a minstrel’s gallery overlooked it.

Source: tatoeba (6606738)

I forgette to tel you what a ſtirre he keepes againſt dumbe ministers, and neuer writes nor talkes of them, but hee calleth them minſtrels, […]

Source: wiktionary

Should a Minſtrel ſing to a ſweet tune with her voice, and play to another with her hand that is harſh and diſpleaſing; ſuch muſick would more grate the judicious ear, than if ſhe had ſung to what ſhe plaid? Thus to ſing to truth with our judgement, and play wickedneſs with our heart and hand in our life, is more abhorring to God and all good men, than where the judgement is erroneous, as well as the life ungodly.

Source: wiktionary

[page xv] The Minstrels ſeem to have been the genuine ſucceſſors of the ancient Bards, who united the arts of Poetry and Muſic, and ſung verſes to the harp, of their own compoſing. […] [page xvi] [T]he Minſtrels continued a diſtinct order of men, and got their livelihood by ſinging verſes to the harp, at the houſes of the great.

Source: wiktionary

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