Definition of minstrel
Nouns
a singer of folk songs
- Synonyms:
- folk singer, jongleur, poet-singer, troubadour
- Examples:
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Woodrow Wilson Guthrie
United States folk singer and songwriter (1912-1967)
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Peter Seeger
United States folk singer who was largely responsible for the interest in folk music in the 1960s (born in 1919)
a performer in a minstrel show
- Types:
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corner man, end man
a man at one end of line of performers in a minstrel show; carries on humorous dialogue with the interlocutor
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interlocutor, middleman
the performer in the middle of a minstrel line who engages the others in talk
- Type of:
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performer, performing artist
an entertainer who performs a dramatic or musical work for an audience
Verbs
celebrate by singing, in the style of minstrels
- Type of:
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sing
produce tones with the voice
Vocabulary Lists for minstrel
- venomous
- minstrel
- lubricate
- waft
- illuminate
- abatable
- abatis
- aberrance
- abidance
- abience