Definitions for minnesingers

minnesingers min·ne·sing·er

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

Minnesingers is a 12 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 19 points.

You can make 419 anagrams from letters in minnesingers (eegiimnnnrss).

Definitions for minnesingers

noun

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

Origin of minnesingers

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

Examples for minnesingers

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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