Definitions for minnesinger

minnesinger min·ne·sing·er

Spelling: [min-uh-sing-er]
IPA: /ˈmɪn əˌsɪŋ ər/

Minnesinger is a 11 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 19 points.

You can make 329 anagrams from letters in minnesinger (eegiimnnnrs).

Definitions for minnesinger

noun

  1. one of a class of German lyric poets and singers of the 12th, 13th, and 14th centuries.

Origin of minnesinger

1815-25; German, equivalent to Minne love + Singer singer

Examples for minnesinger

His last production as a minnesinger was a prescription for a "virtue-electuary."

The minnesinger dames went far beyond our laird's daughter in the way of requiring "ferlies" from their lovers.

He began his career as a minnesinger, but later on entered a monastery.

Yet, Ssskind von Trimberg was at once a Jew and a minnesinger.

Eschenbach (eshen-ba˙h), Wolfram von, German medival poet or minnesinger, flourished in the first half of the thirteenth century.

Hence the minnesinger was a minstrel whose avowed theme was love.

The troubadour of Provence, like the minnesinger of Germany, imitated these invocations to spring.

The era of the minnesinger has been divided into three periods.

Of Vogelwied, the minnesinger, and his bequest to the birds.

Surely the light-hearted boy, for boy he always has been to me, was meant for a minnesinger.

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