Ballad
Ballad noun - A short musical composition for the human voice often with instrumental accompaniment.
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Synonyms for Ballad
Ode is a synonym for ballad in language topic. In some cases you can use "Ode" instead a noun "Ballad", when it comes to topics like music, songlike poem. popular alternative
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Adam Sandler's "Ode To My Car" is a profanity-laced Reggae-esque ballad with a chorus of "Piece of shit car, I gotta piece of shit car".
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Morality Ballad: "Like a Rolling Stone" When you got nothing, you got nothing to lose You're invisible now, you got no secrets to conceal Ode to Intoxication: An ambiguous one in "Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues;" there's a lot of drunkenness in that song, and it's not entirely negative or positive.
Source: Music / Highway 61 Revisited
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Ode or Ballad. 2016. Accessed August 15, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/ballad/ode.
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