ALL meanings of troubadour
trou·ba·dour
T t - noun troubadour travelling minstrel 1
- noun troubadour one of a class of medieval lyric poets who flourished principally in southern France from the 11th to 13th centuries, and wrote songs and poems of a complex metrical form in langue d'oc, chiefly on themes of courtly love. Compare trouvère. 1
- noun troubadour any wandering singer or minstrel. 1
- countable noun troubadour Troubadours were poets and singers who used to travel around and perform to noble families in Italy and France in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. 0
- countable noun troubadour People sometimes refer to popular singers as troubadours, especially when the words of their songs are an important part of their music. 0
- noun troubadour any of a class of lyric poets who flourished principally in Provence and N Italy from the 11th to the 13th centuries, writing chiefly on courtly love in complex metric form 0
- noun troubadour a singer 0
- noun troubadour any of a class of lyric poets and poet-musicians in S France and N Spain and Italy during the 11th through 13th cent. who wrote poems and songs of love and chivalry, usually with intricate stanza form and rhyme scheme 0
- noun troubadour a minstrel or singer 0