Usually means: Traveling musician performing medieval songs.
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General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. minstrel: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. minstrel: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. minstrel: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. minstrel: Collins English Dictionary
  5. minstrel: Vocabulary.com
  6. Minstrel, minstrel: Wordnik
  7. minstrel: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. minstrel: Wiktionary
  9. minstrel: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. minstrel: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. minstrel: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Minstrel, minstrel: Dictionary.com
  13. minstrel: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. minstrel: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Minstrel (disambiguation), Minstrel, The Minstrel: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Minstrel: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. minstrel: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. minstrel: Rhymezone
  19. Minstrel: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. minstrel: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. minstrel: Free Dictionary
  22. minstrel: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. minstrel: Dictionary/thesaurus
  24. minstrel: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Banjo Glossary (No longer online)
  2. MINSTREL: The Britannia Lexicon (Middle Ages Glossary)
  3. Virginia Tech Multimedia Music Dictionary (No longer online)
  4. Natural Magick (No longer online)
  5. MINSTREL: Bobs Byway OF POETIC TERMS

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. minstrel: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Arms and Armour (No longer online)
  3. MINSTREL: Acronym Finder

Religion (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Minstrel: Easton Bible
  2. Minstrel: Smith's Bible Dictionary

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. minstrel: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. minstrel: The Folk File
  3. minstrel: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See minstreling as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (historical) Originally, an entertainer employed to juggle, play music, sing, tell stories, etc.; a buffoon, a fool, a jester; later, a medieval (especially travelling) entertainer who would recite and sing poetry, often to their own musical accompaniment.
noun:  (by extension)
noun:  (chiefly poetic) Any lyric poet, musician, or singer.
noun:  (US, historical) One of a troupe of entertainers, often a white person who wore black makeup (blackface), to present a so-called minstrel show, being a variety show of banjo music, dance, and song (now sometimes regarded as racist).
noun:  (by extension, slang) An amphetamine tablet, typically black, or black and white, in colour.
verb:  (transitive) To play (a tune on a musical instrument); to sing (a song).
verb:  (intransitive) To act as a minstrel; to entertain by playing a musical instrument, singing, etc.

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