ballade
Meanings
Plural: ballades
Noun
- a poem consisting of 3 stanzas and an envoy
- Any of various genres of single-movement musical pieces having lyrical and narrative elements.
- A poem of one or more triplets of seven- or eight-line stanzas, each ending with the same line as refrain, and usually an envoi; more generally, any poem in stanzas of equal length.
Origin / Etymology
Borrowed from French ballade. Doublet of ballad.
Scrabble Score: 10
ballade is a valid Scrabble (US) TWL wordballade is a valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
ballade is a valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary
Words With Friends Score: 13
ballade is a valid Words With Friends word