Usually means: Narrative songs telling emotional stories.
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  1. ballads: Merriam-Webster
  2. ballads: Collins English Dictionary
  3. ballads: Vocabulary.com
  4. Ballads, ballad's, ballads: Wordnik
  5. ballads: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. ballads: Wiktionary
  7. ballads: Dictionary.com
  8. ballads: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Ballads (David Murray album), Ballads (Earl Klugh album), Ballads (Harem Scarem album), Ballads (John Coltrane album), Ballads (Mary J. Blige album), Ballads (Paul Bley album), Ballads (Richard Marx album), Ballads, The Ballads (Doro album), The Ballads (Mariah Carey album), The Ballads (REO Speedwagon album), The Ballads (group): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. Ballads: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  11. Ballads: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. Ballads: Encyclopedia

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  1. Ballads: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wikipedia (Ballads)

noun:  a compilation album released on December 20, 2000 by American R&B singer Mary J. Blige.
noun:  a jazz album by John Coltrane released in January 1963 by Impulse!
noun:  a jazz album by David Murray released on the Japanese DIW label in 1988.
noun:  the second compilation album by Richard Marx.
noun:  the second compilation album by Greek singer Despina Vandi, featuring a collection of ballads and love songs during her time at the Minos EMI label.
noun:  a compilation album by Earl Klugh released in 1993.
noun:  an album by Canadian jazz pianist Paul Bley recorded on March 31 and July 28, 1967 and released on ECM in 1971.ECM discography accessed August 29, 2011 The sessions' trios feature rhythm sections Mark Levinson and Barry Altschul on side B, and Gary Peacock and Altschul on side A, respectively.
noun:  Ballads is the first solo studio album recorded by the British jazz saxophonist Ken Stubbs, released in 2000 by UK jazz label, Cherryk Records.
noun:  a studio album by English jazz pianist/vocalist Liane Carroll.


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