Definitions for ballade

ballade bal·lade

Spelling: [buh-lahd, ba-; French ba-l
IPA: /bəˈlɑd, bæ-; French baˈlad/

Ballade is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 124 anagrams from letters in ballade (aabdell).

Definitions for ballade

noun

  1. a poem consisting commonly of three stanzas having an identical rhyme scheme, followed by an envoy, and having the same last line for each of the stanzas and the envoy.
  2. Music. a composition in free style and romantic mood, often for solo piano or for orchestra.

Origin of ballade

1485-95; Middle French, variant of balade ballad

Examples for ballade

All that was possible, however, to be made of the ballade was made of it by Mr. Borwick.

If you neglect the sounds it is no ballade; if you neglect the sense—why write it at all?

The "ballade" took ten minutes, which was five minutes too long.

Chesterton is so fond of the ballade that I must quote one specimen complete.

It agrees with the present ballade; which settles the question.

Deschamps excelled in the use of the ballade and the chant royal.

Alluding to the wheel of Fortune; see the ballade on Fortune, l. 46, and note.

Others, looking at the ceiling, sigh to the viol some German ballade.

The ballade commonly consists of three stanzas, with an envoy.

The moderns introduced the sonnet, the ballade, the ballad and other forms.

Word Value for ballade
Scrable

10

Words with friends

13

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