troubadour en · NOUN
Pronunciation
- (General-American) audio
- /ˈtruːbəˌdɔː/ (Received-Pronunciation)
- /ˈtrubəˌdɔr/ (General-American)
Etymology
From Old Occitan trobar (“to find”) via Old French troubadour. Piecewise doublet of trouveur.
Meanings
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An itinerant composer and performer of songs in medieval Europe; a jongleur or travelling minstrel.
“"Not a human, not yet a vampire," to paraphrase one of your contemporary musical troubadours.”
2023 August 17, Jeremy Levick & Rajat Suresh, “Hybrid Creatures” (0:18 from the start), in What We Do in the Shadows, season 5, episode 7, spoken by Laszlo Cravensworth (Matt Berry):Sitting in the courtroom ..., their laptops and tablets propped before them, power cables snaking through convoluted adapters, the Twitterati have sight of witnesses at all times – the troubadours, or perhaps the tricoteuses, of the digital revolution.
2014 April 24, Alan Cowell, “At Pistorius trial, Twitterati have their day in court”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 17 Apr 2023:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| troubadours | Number=Plur | lexicographic |
Coordinates
Deriveds
troubadourism · troubadourish · troubadour fiddle
Translations (53)
la tropātor (an itinerant performer of songs) · it trobairitz (an itinerant performer of songs) · sv trubadur (an itinerant performer of songs) · bg трубаду́р (an itinerant performer of songs) · cmn 吟遊詩人 /吟游诗人 (an itinerant performer of songs) · ko 음유시인 (an itinerant performer of songs) · de Troubairitz (an itinerant performer of songs) · es trovador (an itinerant performer of songs) · vo trubadur (an itinerant performer of songs) · de Trobairitz (an itinerant performer of songs) · fr trouvère (an itinerant performer of songs) · ca trobador (an itinerant performer of songs) · it trovatrice (an itinerant performer of songs) · fr troubadouresse (an itinerant performer of songs) · ru трубаду́р (an itinerant performer of songs) · el τροβαδούρος (an itinerant performer of songs) · nl troubadour (an itinerant performer of songs) · eo trobadoro (an itinerant performer of songs) · hy տրուբադուր (an itinerant performer of songs) · ro trubadur (an itinerant performer of songs) · it trobadore (an itinerant performer of songs) · gl troveiro (an itinerant performer of songs) · be трубаду́р (an itinerant performer of songs) · da trubadur (an itinerant performer of songs) · rif amedyaz (an itinerant performer of songs) · pt trovador (an itinerant performer of songs) · ar تْرُوبَادُور (an itinerant performer of songs) · sh trubàdūr (an itinerant performer of songs) · fr troubadour (an itinerant performer of songs) · mr ट्रुबाडूर (an itinerant performer of songs) · cs trubadúr (an itinerant performer of songs) · vo hitrubadur (an itinerant performer of songs) · de Troubadourin (an itinerant performer of songs) · es trovadora (an itinerant performer of songs) · pl trubadur (an itinerant performer of songs) · ja トルバドゥール (an itinerant performer of songs) · fr trobairitz (an itinerant performer of songs) · hu trubadúr (an itinerant performer of songs) · vo jitrubadur (an itinerant performer of songs) · fi trubaduuri (an itinerant performer of songs) · mk трубаду́р (an itinerant performer of songs) · sl trubadur (an itinerant performer of songs) · de Trobador (an itinerant performer of songs) · crh aşıq (an itinerant performer of songs) · ca trobadora (an itinerant performer of songs) · it trovatore (an itinerant performer of songs) · sh труба̀дӯр (an itinerant performer of songs) · ja 吟遊詩人 (an itinerant performer of songs) · uk трубаду́р (an itinerant performer of songs) · sk trubadúr (an itinerant performer of songs) · ko 트루바두르 (an itinerant performer of songs) · de Troubadour (an itinerant performer of songs) · gl troveira (an itinerant performer of songs)