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
  • Marie-Reine, who had stayed at the Palmyra during the festival’s heyday, took my hand and walked me through the hotel of her memories, the dances in the cavernous dining hall, the all-night lyrical improvisations of the poet Talal Haidar in the courtyard.
    Youmna Melhem Chamieh, Harper's Magazine, 2 Jan. 2025
  • One person who had their palm read at this time was the Irish poet and playwright Oscar Wilde.
    Michelle Aroney and David Zeitlyn, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 Jan. 2025
Definition of poet
Noun
  • The verbal glove slap unleashed a back-and-forth war of words via diss track, which, in retrospect, was never going to go Drake's way – Lamar, after all, is a Pulitzer Prize-winning lyricist.
    Rebecca Messina, The Week UK, theweek, 30 Dec. 2024
  • Titled Sofía Valdés, the LP showcases both her vocals and innate talent as a lyricist and producer.
    Maya Georgi, Rolling Stone, 10 Dec. 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
  • The husky Black man from the Bronx toiled for every inch of respect, beset by toxicity and misinformation, as hairy white folk-rock and boogie-band alumni pushed similar buttons to become the de facto bards of the everyman.
    Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 2 Jan. 2025
  • The endearing homecoming introduces new characters including Moni (Hualalai Chung), a passionate island bard; Loto (Rose Matafeo), a quirky shipwright; Kele (David Fane), a cantankerous farmer; and Simea (Khaleesi Lambert-Tsuda), Moana’s tenacious younger sister.
    Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 26 Nov. 2024
Definition of bard
Noun
  • Gary Barwin is a writer, composer, multimedia artist, and the author of 18 books of poetry and fiction as well as books for kids.
    Hazlitt, Hazlitt, 10 Jan. 2025
  • Obermann’s love of the avant-garde composer dates back to the early ’90s and his first post-college job: an entry-level distribution gig handling jazz and classics at BMG.
    SPIN Staff, SPIN, 9 Jan. 2025
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
  • Something in me wants to talk about the hard rain that is falling right now, and to wonder who will step up to sing about it: who will be our minstrel of the End Times; our guiding, undeceivable voice; and so on.
    James Parker, The Atlantic, 17 Dec. 2024
  • In 2021 Hartzell hired an outside firm to help the university with its reputation over a racial controversy with the school song's association with old campus minstrel shows.
    Lily Kepner, Austin American-Statesman, 15 July 2024
Definition of minstrel
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