Definitions for minstrel

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minstrel min·strel

Spelling: [min-struh l]

IPA: /ˈmɪn strəl/

Minstrel is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 405 anagrams from letters in minstrel (eilmnrst).

Definitions for minstrel

noun

1. a medieval poet and musician who sang or recited while accompanying himself on a stringed instrument, either as a member of a noble household or as an itinerant troubadour.
2. a musician, singer, or poet.
3. one of a troupe of comedians, usually white men in blackface, presenting songs, jokes, etc., and portraying negative racial stereotypes.

Origin of minstrel

1175-1225; Middle English ministrel Old French Late Latin ministeriālis servant (noun use of adj.); see ministerial

Examples for minstrel

"I trust that I am a better bowman than a minstrel," said he.

She seemed the minstrel of her race mourning for a vanished world.

The minstrel, like the fighters, revels in hard knocks and rough jests.

Cappen Varra, minstrel of Croy, clung to the bench and sighed.

I started with a minstrel show, making eight bucks a night, three nights a week.

The harp of the minstrel is untruly touched, if his own glory is all that it records.

In a tradition that goes back to the days of the minstrel show, the banjo player doubled as a comedian.

What kind of minstrel show he gave to win his freedom is not known.

They perceived it as symbolic sexual service in the minstrel lane.

The idea that Cyrus staged what amounts to a minstrel show Sunday night is an interesting, though debatable, one.