'Troubadour' definitions:
Definition of 'troubadour'
From: WordNet
noun
Definition of 'Troubadour'
From: GCIDE
- Troubadour \Trou"ba*dour`\, n. [F. troubadour, fr. Pr. trobador, (assumed) LL. tropator a singer, tropare to sing, fr. tropus a kind of singing, a melody, song, L. tropus a trope, a song, Gr. ? a turn, way, manner, particular mode in music, a trope. See Trope, and cf. {Trouv?re}.] One of a school of poets who flourished from the eleventh to the thirteenth century, principally in Provence, in the south of France, and also in the north of Italy. They invented, and especially cultivated, a kind of lyrical poetry characterized by intricacy of meter and rhyme, and usually of a romantic, amatory strain. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'troubadour'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- Ahasuerus,
- Ancient Mariner,
- arch-poet,
- Argonaut,
- ballad maker,
- ballad singer,
- balladeer,
- balladist,
- balladmonger,
- bard,
- beat poet,
- bird of passage,
- bucoliast,
- drifter,
- elegist,
- epic poet,
- fili,
- floater,
- Flying Dutchman,
- folk singer,
- folk-rock singer,
- gad,
- gadabout,
- gleeman,
- go-about,
- Goliard,
- idyllist,
- imagist,
- itinerant,
- jongleur,
- laureate,
- librettist,
- major poet,
- maker,
- Meistersinger,
- minnesinger,
- minor poet,
- minstrel,
- modernist,
- mover,
- occasional poet,
- odist,
- Odysseus,
- Oisin,
- Ossian,
- Parnassian,
- pastoral poet,
- pastoralist,
- peregrinator,
- peregrine,
- peripatetic,
- poet,
- poet laureate,
- poetress,
- rambler,
- rhapsode,
- rhapsodist,
- rhymer,
- rhymester,
- roamer,
- rolling stone,
- rover,
- runabout,
- satirist,
- scop,
- serenader,
- skald,
- sonneteer,
- straggler,
- street singer,
- stroller,
- strolling minstrel,
- strolling player,
- symbolist,
- trouveur,
- trovatore,
- Ulysses,
- vers libriste,
- vers-librist,
- visitant,
- wait,
- wanderer,
- wandering minstrel,
- wandering scholar