Synonyms for minstrel
ˈmɪn strəlmin·strel

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1. minstrelnoun

   Synonyms:
   bard, folk singer, troubadour

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:4.3 / 4 votes

1. minstrel

   Synonyms:
   singer, musician, bard

Princeton's WordNetRate these synonyms:1.0 / 3 votes

1. folk singer, jongleur, minstrel, poet-singer, troubadournoun

   a singer of folk songs

   Synonyms:
   folk singer, troubadour, poet-singer, jongleur

2. minstrelverb

   a performer in a minstrel show

   Synonyms:
   folk singer, troubadour, poet-singer, jongleur

3. minstrelverb

   celebrate by singing, in the style of minstrels

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1. • Music
   • Sing

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1. minstrelnoun

   Synonyms:
   musician, singer, bard

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1. minstrelnoun

   Synonyms:
   gleeman, bard

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1. Kyna Hamill:

   As I mentioned in my article, the first documented performance of the song is in a blackface minstrel hall in Boston in 1857, the same year it was copyrighted, much research has been done on the problematic history of this nineteenth-century entertainment.

2. Rhiannon Giddens:

   When I first heard the minstrel banjo - I played a gourd first - I almost lost my mind. I was like, Oh, my god. And then I went to Africa, to the Gambia, and studied the akonting, which is an ancestor of the banjo, and just that connection to me was just immense.

3. Erinn Wong:

   In fact, minstrel blackface has emerged into even more subtle forms of racism that are now glorified all over the Internet.