All troubadour synonyms

noun troubadour

• choralist — a person who sings in a chorus or ensemble
• balladeer — a singer of ballads
• accompanist — An accompanist is a musician, especially a pianist, who plays one part of a piece of music while someone else sings or plays the main tune.
• choristers — Plural form of chorister.
• intoner — to utter with a particular tone or voice modulation.
• bard — People sometimes refer to William Shakespeare as the Bard.
• chanter — a person who chants
• chanteuse — a female singer, esp in a nightclub or cabaret
• crooner — A crooner is a male singer who sings sentimental songs, especially the love songs of the 1930s and 1940s.
• harper — James, 1795–1869, and his brothers John, 1797–1875, (Joseph) Wesley, 1801–70, and Fletcher, 1806–77, U.S. printers and publishers.
• folk singer — a singer who specializes in folk songs, usually providing his or her own accompaniment on a guitar.
• chorister — A chorister is a singer in a church choir.
• warbler — any of several small, chiefly Old World songbirds of the subfamily Sylviidae. Compare blackcap (def 1), reed warbler.
• minnesinger — one of a class of German lyric poets and singers of the 12th, 13th, and 14th centuries.
• gleeman — (in medieval times) an itinerant singer; minstrel.
• nightingale — Florence ("the Lady with the Lamp") 1820–1910, English nurse: reformer of hospital conditions and procedures; reorganizer of nurse's training programs.
• minstrel — a medieval poet and musician who sang or recited while accompanying himself on a stringed instrument, either as a member of a noble household or as an itinerant troubadour.
• artiste — An artiste is a professional entertainer, for example a singer or a dancer.
• yodeler — a song, refrain, etc., so sung.
• melodist — a composer or a singer of melodies.
• jongleur — (in medieval France and Norman England) an itinerant minstrel or entertainer who sang songs, often of his own composition, and told stories.