different between ballad vs idyll

English

Etymology

From French ballade, from Old Occitan ballada (“poem for a dance”), from Late Latin ballare. Doublet of ballade.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?bæl?d/

Noun

ballad (plural ballads)

1. A kind of narrative poem, adapted for recitation or singing; especially, a sentimental or romantic poem in short stanzas.

2. A slow romantic song.

Derived terms

• murder ballad
• power ballad

Translations

Verb

ballad (third-person singular simple present ballads, present participle ballading, simple past and past participle balladed)

1. (obsolete) To make mention of in ballads.
2. (intransitive) To compose or sing ballads.

English

Alternative forms

• idyl

Etymology

From Latin ?dyllium, from Ancient Greek ????????? (eidúllion), from diminutive of ????? (eîdos, “form, shape”).

Pronunciation

• (UK): IPA^(key): /??d?l/, /??d?l/
• Rhymes: -?d?l, -?d?l
• (US): enPR: ??d?l, IPA^(key): /?a?d?l/, /?a?d?l/
• Rhymes: -a?d?l
• Homophones: idle, idol (US)

Noun

idyll (plural idylls)

1. Any poem or short written piece composed in the style of Theocritus' short pastoral poems, the Idylls.
2. An episode or series of events or circumstances of pastoral or rural simplicity, fit for an idyll; a carefree or lighthearted experience.
3. (music) A composition, usually instrumental, of a pastoral or sentimental character, e.g. Siegfried Idyll by Richard Wagner.

Related terms

• idyllic
• idyllical
• idyllically
• idyllist, idylist

Translations

See also

• idyll on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

References

• idyll in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• idyll in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Anagrams

• Dilly, dilly

Swedish

Etymology

Cognate with Danish idyl, English idyll and German idyll, used since 1781.

Noun

idyll c

1. an idyll (a poem)
2. a place free of distress

Declension

Related terms

• idylldiktning
• idylliker
• idyllisera
• idyllisering
• idyllisk
• sörgårdsidyll

References

• idyll in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• idyll in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)