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"word": "ballad opera"
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"ref": "1885, Gilbert and Sullivan, The Mikado, act 1",
"text": "A wandering minstrel I — / A thing of shreds and patches, / Of ballads, songs and snatches, / And dreamy lullaby!",
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"word": "چکامه"
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"text": "On Friday nights, the roller rink had a time-block called \"Lovers' Lap\" when they played nothing but ballads on the overhead speakers.",
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"A slow romantic song."
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"word": "baladë"
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"word": "бала́да"
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"sense": "slow romantic song",
"word": "芭樂"
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"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "bāyuè",
"sense": "slow romantic song",
"word": "芭乐"
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"code": "el",
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"word": "μπαλάντα"
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"sense": "slow romantic song",
"word": "발라드"
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"lang": "Persian",
"roman": "tasnif",
"sense": "slow romantic song",
"word": "تصنیف"
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"expansion": "Doublet of ballade",
"name": "doublet"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From French ballade, from Old Occitan ballada (“poem for a dance”), from Late Latin ballare. Doublet of ballade.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "ballads",
"tags": [
"present",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "ballading",
"tags": [
"participle",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "balladed",
"tags": [
"participle",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "balladed",
"tags": [
"past"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "ballad (third-person singular simple present ballads, present participle ballading, simple past and past participle balladed)",
"name": "en-verb"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "verb",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"English terms with obsolete senses"
],
"glosses": [
"To make mention of in ballads."
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(obsolete) To make mention of in ballads."
],
"tags": [
"obsolete"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English intransitive verbs"
],
"glosses": [
"To compose or sing ballads."
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(intransitive) To compose or sing ballads."
],
"tags": [
"intransitive"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈbæləd/"
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈbælɪt/",
"note": "Appalachians, obsolete"
},
{
"audio": "en-us-ballad.ogg",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/6/60/En-us-ballad.ogg/En-us-ballad.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/60/En-us-ballad.ogg",
"tags": [
"US"
],
"text": "Audio (US)"
}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "to compose or sing ballads",
"tags": [
"imperfective",
"rare"
],
"word": "balladować"
}
],
"word": "ballad"
}
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