lyrist

noun

Definition of lyristnext
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  1. poet
  2. lyricist
  3. versifier
  4. poetaster
  5. bard
  6. composer
  7. librettist
  8. minstrel
Noun
  • Moreover, the poet makes Pheidippides into a romantic hero, cut down tragically on the threshold of adulthood.
    Miriam Kamil, JSTOR Daily, 20 Nov. 2024
  • Recognized as one of India’s, and perhaps the world’s 50 most influential people, Sadhguru is a yogi, mystic, environmental activist, poet, and the bestselling author of over thirty books.
    Mandeep Rai, Forbes, 20 Nov. 2024
Definition of poet
Noun
  • The tour is the group’s first since their 2014 split, and their first since the passing of vocalist and lyricist Shane MacGowan in 2023.
    Tyler Jenke, Billboard, 19 Nov. 2024
  • In addition to Mitchell, the creative team includes composer David Foster, lyricist Susan Birkenhead and book writer Bob Martin.
    Greg Evans, Deadline, 19 Nov. 2024
Definition of lyricist
Noun
  • Her language thus had its necessary counterpoint: the Bronx’s fullness against her poetry’s economy; the streetcorner’s pizzicato against her versifier’s swing.
    Helen Shaw, Vulture, 25 Mar. 2022
  • Modest Durnov, an artist and versifier, did not leave his mark on the world of art.
    Sarah Vitali, Harper's magazine, 10 May 2019
Definition of versifier
Noun
  • Heti’s detractors could probably put a bottle in the middle of a table and entertain themselves reading lines out of context in suave, poetaster voices.
    New York Times, New York Times, 7 Feb. 2022
  • But -aster words have never been particularly common, with the exception of poetaster, an inferior poet.
    Melissa Mohr, The Christian Science Monitor, 28 June 2018
Definition of poetaster
Noun
  • According to Open Source Shakespeare, a web page containing all of the bard’s plays, poems and sonnets, there are 884,421 words in the entire works of Shakespeare.
    David Hodari, NBC News, 1 Nov. 2024
  • Later in the year, the celebration continued with the release of 12 D&D Minifigures, including an elf bard, a dwarf barbarian and a witch queen.
    Amy Schwabe, Journal Sentinel, 25 Sep. 2024
Definition of bard
Noun
  • San Francisco singer Sandy Cressman has played that essential role for the São Paulo mother-and-daughter team of jazz pianist/composer Débora Gurgel and vocalist Dani Gurgel.
    Andrew Gilbert, The Mercury News, 13 Nov. 2024
  • Celine Dion has paid tribute to iconic producer/arranger/composer and bandleader Quincy Jones, following his death Sunday at age 91.
    Jessica Nicholson, Billboard, 5 Nov. 2024
Definition of composer
Noun
  • The original version of Sunset Blvd., which Webber developed with librettists Don Black and Christopher Hampton in the early 1990s, premiered with director Trevor Nunn on the West End in 1993.
    Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 21 Oct. 2024
  • The letter was to Jennens, the Messiah’s librettist.
    Jan Swafford, The Atlantic, 29 Oct. 2024
Definition of librettist
Noun
  • One in which a racially stereotypical minstrel image seemed to be depicted in their latest U.S. campaign.
    Doug Melville, Forbes, 14 Oct. 2024
  • His father, who died when Marshall was 10, occasionally sang in a minstrel act and Marshall’s sister, actor Joanne Dru, worked as a showgirl at the Copa Club.
    Nardine Saad, Los Angeles Times, 15 Aug. 2024
Definition of minstrel
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