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Balladeer

Definition: Balladeer

Balladeer

Noun

1. A singer of popular ballads.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Synonym: Balladeer

Synonym: crooner (n). (additional references)

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Commercial Usage: Balladeer

DomainTitle

Books

  • A Yankee balladeer : [songs and stories] (reference)

  • Goldfield balladeer : the life and times of the celebrated Charles R. Thatcher (reference)

  • John the Balladeer (reference)

  • Kipling: Victorian Balladeer (Illustrated Poetry Anthology Series) (reference)

  • Woody Guthrie: American Balladeer (Unsung Americans) (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Music

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Balladeer

"Balladeer" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Balladeer" is used about 10 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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)100%10111,207

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Balladeer

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

ovation balladeer

6

balladeer

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Balladeer

Language Translations for "balladeer"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

German

  

Balladesänger (balladeers). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

alladeerbay.(various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Balladeer

Derivations

Words beginning with "balladeer": balladeers. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Balladeer" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Balandier, balladier, ballady, Ballitore, Bellador, daladier. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Balladeer

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-b-d-e-e-l-l-r"

-1 letter: readable.

-2 letters: ballade, bleared, labeled, labeler, relabel.

-3 letters: abrade, arable, balder, ballad, balled, baller, beadle, bedell, belled, blared, dealer, ladler, leader.

-4 letters: abele, abler, alder, allee, ardeb, areae, areal, baaed, baled, baler, barde, bared, beard, bedel, belle, blade, blare, blear, bleed, bread, brede, breed, debar, eared, elder, label, labra, lader, ladle, laree, rebel.

-5 letters: abed, able, alae, alar, alba, alee, area, baal, bade, bald, bale, ball, bard, bare, bead, bear, beer, bell, blae, bled, brad, brae, bred, bree, dale, darb, dare, deal, dear, deer, dele, dell, dere, drab, dree, earl, lade, lard, lead, leal, lear, leer, rale, read, real, rede, reed, reel.

 Words containing the letters "a-a-b-d-e-e-l-l-r"
 

+1 letter: balladeers, declarable.

 

+3 letters: radiolabeled.

 

+4 letters: radiolabelled.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Balladeer


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

42 61 6C 6C 61 64 65 65 72

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

-...    .-    .-..    .-..    .-    -..    .    .    .-.

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000010 01100001 01101100 01101100 01100001 01100100 01100101 01100101 01110010

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#66 &#97 &#108 &#108 &#97 &#100 &#101 &#101 &#114

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0042 0061 006C 006C 0061 0064 0065 0065 0072

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

366778786770717184

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Usage Frequency
5. Expressions: Internet
6. Translations: Modern
7. Derivations
8. Anagrams
9. Orthography
10. Bibliography


  

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