'Minstrel' definitions:
Definition of 'minstrel'
(from WordNet)
noun
noun
A performer in a minstrel show
verb
Celebrate by singing, in the style of minstrels
Definition of 'Minstrel'
From: GCIDE
- Minstrel \Min"strel\, n. [OE. minstrel, menestral, OF. menestrel, fr. LL. ministerialis servant, workman (cf. ministrellus harpist), fr. L. ministerium service. See Ministry, and cf. Ministerial.] In the Middle Ages, one of an order of men who subsisted by the arts of poetry and music, and sang verses to the accompaniment of a harp or other instrument; in modern times, a poet; a bard; a singer and harper; a musician. --Chaucer. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'minstrel'
From: Easton
- Minstrel (Matt. 9:23), a flute-player. Such music was a usual accompaniment of funerals. In 2 Kings 3:15 it denotes a player on a stringed instrument.
Synonyms of 'minstrel'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- arch-poet,
- artist,
- artiste,
- ballad maker,
- ballad opera,
- ballad singer,
- balladeer,
- balladist,
- balladmonger,
- ballet,
- ballet divertissement,
- bard,
- beat poet,
- Broadway musical,
- bucoliast,
- chorus show,
- comedy ballet,
- comic opera,
- concert artist,
- dance drama,
- elegist,
- epic poet,
- executant,
- fili,
- folk singer,
- folk-rock singer,
- gleeman,
- grand opera,
- idyllist,
- imagist,
- interpreter,
- jongleur,
- laureate,
- librettist,
- light opera,
- lyric drama,
- maestro,
- major poet,
- maker,
- Meistersinger,
- minnesinger,
- minor poet,
- minstrel show,
- minstrelsy,
- modernist,
- music drama,
- music maker,
- musical,
- musical comedy,
- musical stage,
- musical theater,
- musician,
- occasional poet,
- odist,
- opera,
- opera ballet,
- opera bouffe,
- opera buffa,
- operetta,
- Parnassian,
- pastoral poet,
- pastoralist,
- performer,
- player,
- poet,
- poet laureate,
- poetress,
- rhapsode,
- rhapsodist,
- satirist,
- scald,
- scop,
- serenader,
- singer,
- Singspiel,
- skald,
- soloist,
- song-and-dance act,
- song-play,
- sonneteer,
- street singer,
- strolling minstrel,
- symbolist,
- troubador,
- troubadour,
- trouveur,
- trovatore,
- tunester,
- vers libriste,
- vers-librist,
- virtuosa,
- virtuoso,
- wait,
- wandering minstrel