# ballade

> English word · Noun

## Definitions
1. Any of various genres of single-movement musical pieces having lyrical and narrative elements.
2. A poem of one or more triplets of seven- or eight-line stanzas, each ending with the same line as refrain, and usually an envoi; more generally, any poem in stanzas of equal length.

## Etymology
Borrowed from French ballade. Doublet of ballad.

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/ballade