minstrel : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: minstrel	by the DICT Development Group
3 results for minstrel
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
minstrel n a singer of folk songs [syn: folk singer, jongleur, minstrel, poet-singer, troubadour] a performer in a minstrel show v celebrate by singing, in the style of minstrels
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Minstrel \Min"strel\, n. [OE. minstrel, menestral, OF. menestrel, fr. LL. ministerialis servant, workman (cf. ministrellus harpist), fr. L. ministerium service. See {Ministry}, and cf. {Ministerial}.] In the Middle Ages, one of an order of men who subsisted by the arts of poetry and music, and sang verses to the accompaniment of a harp or other instrument; in modern times, a poet; a bard; a singer and harper; a musician. --Chaucer.
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:
Minstrel (Matt. 9:23), a flute-player. Such music was a usual accompaniment of funerals. In 2 Kings 3:15 it denotes a player on a stringed instrument.