- any light, simple song, especially one of sentimental or romantic character, having two or more stanzas all sung to the same melody.
- a simple narrative poem of folk origin, composed in short stanzas and adapted for singing.
- any poem written in similar style.
- the music for a ballad.
- a sentimental or romantic popular song.
- a narrative song with a recurrent refrain
- a narrative poem in short stanzas of popular origin, originally sung to a repeated tune
- a slow sentimental song, esp a pop song
