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"BALLADS" is a plural of: ballad. |
Date "BALLADS" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1596. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Ballads "Let me make the ballads, and who will may make the laws." Andrew Fletcher of Saltoun, in Scotland, wrote to the Marquis of Montrose, "I knew a very wise man of Sir Christopher Musgrave's sentiment. He believed, if a man were permitted to make all the ballads, he need not care who should make the laws" (1703). Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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Crosswords: BALLADS |
| English words defined with "BALLADS": Ballad monger, balladeer, Ballader, Balladry ♦ Chaunter, crooner ♦ florilegium ♦ Garland, Grub Street ♦ Iglesias ♦ Julio Iglesias ♦ minstrelsy, miscellany ♦ Scott, Sir Walter Scott ♦ Walter Scott, whence, wherefrom. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "BALLADS": Accius Navius ♦ Æolic Mode ♦ All the go, Arcos Barbs ♦ BAWDY BASKET, Bon Gaultier Ballads ♦ Chap-book ♦ Flummux ♦ Gall of Pigeons, Gonsalez ♦ Horse-milliner ♦ Keep your Powder Dry ♦ Lord Thomas ♦ Settle your Hask, Sweet Singers. (references) |
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Movie/TV Titles | Barber Shop Ballads (1945) Bullets and Ballads (1940) Bandits and Ballads (1939) Ballads and Bologna (1917) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | The phantom ship from legendary ballads by Thomas Moore, arranged for one or three voices by Henry R. Bishop / lith. of Endicott, N.Y. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Franklin selling his ballads in the streets of Boston / Charles E. Mills 1908. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Franklin selling his ballads in the streets of Boston. Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
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| Author | Quotation |
Fletcher | Let me write the ballads of a nation, and I care not who make its laws. |
Longfellow | Ballads are the gupsy children of song, born under green hedge-rows, in the leafy lanes and by-paths of literature, in the genial summer time. |
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| "BALLADS" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 66.15% of the time. "BALLADS" is used about 195 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (plural) | 66.15% | 129 | 28,132 |
| Noun (proper) | 33.85% | 66 | 41,290 |
| Total | 100.00% | 195 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "BALLADS"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 謳 (sing ballads, songs). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
German | Balladen, Lieder (songs). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 説経節 (sutra-based ballads accompanied by the samisen), カラー写真 (ballads sung by Karashima Midori, calif, California, California roll, calligraphy, carat, caricature, caricaturize, caries, cauliflower, charisma, charismatic, color photo, colorful, column, curriculum, Kaliglas, Karachi, karaoke, karat, potash glass, potassium, water outlet). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | せっきょうぶし (sutra-based ballads accompanied by the samisen), カラバラ (ballads sung by Karashima Midori). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | alladsbay baladas. (various references) baledwr (balladmonger, composer of ballads). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Misspellings | |
"BALLADS" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: balad, balades, Balado, balans, Balglass, balladish, ballady, balland, ballid, Bellars, Bjallas. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "BALLADS" (pronounced ba"ludz) |
| 5 | -a" l u d z | salads. |
| 4 | -l u d z | annelids, invalids, solids. |
| 3 | -u d z | acids, alcids, antacids, aphids, arachnids, bicuspids, coloreds, Cupids, desmids, druids, fluids, hatreds, hundreds, hybrids, liquids, methods, orchids, periods, pleiads, pyramids, rapids, undecideds. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-b-d-l-l-s" | |
-1 letter: ballad. | |
-2 letters: albas, baals, balas, balds, balls, balsa, basal, salad, salal. | |
-3 letters: aals, abas, alas, alba, albs, alls, baal, baas, bads, bald, ball, bals, dabs, dals, labs, lads, sall, slab. | |
-4 letters: aal, aas, aba, abs, ads, ala, alb, all, als, baa, bad, bal, bas, dab, dal, lab, lad, las, sab, sad, sal. | |
-5 letters: aa, ab. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-b-d-l-l-s" | |
+1 letter: ballades. | |
+2 letters: balladist, ballasted, djellabas, handballs, hardballs, sabadilla. | |
+3 letters: balladeers, balladists, balladries, blacklands, blackleads, djellabahs, sabadillas, tablelands, wallboards. | |
+4 letters: banderillas, belladonnas, displayable, paddleballs, radiolabels, unballasted. | |
+5 letters: decasyllabic, decasyllable, displaceable, gallbladders, labiodentals, laudableness, syllabicated. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)42 41 4C 4C 41 44 53 |
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-... .- .-.. .-.. .- -.. ... |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000010 01000001 01001100 01001100 01000001 01000100 01010011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)B A L L A D S |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0042 0041 004C 004C 0041 0044 0053 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)36354646353853 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Modern 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Images: Photo Album 6. Quotations: Familiar 7. Usage Frequency 8. Translations: Modern | 9. Derivations 10. Rhymes 11. Anagrams 12. Orthography | 13. Bibliography |
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