minstrel

1. 1.

   celebrate by singing, in the style of minstrels

   Broadersing

   music

Other forms of minstrel

plural

minstrels·

past tense

minstrelled·

present participle

minstrelling·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about minstrel

What does minstrel mean?

minstrel means "a singer of folk songs". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in minstrel?

minstrel has 2 syllables: min-strel. The stress falls on "min". In IPA it is /ˈmɪnstɹəl/.

What is another word for minstrel?

Close synonyms include folk singer, jongleur, poet-singer, troubadour. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is minstrel a common word?

minstrel is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.