lyrist

noun

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  1. poet
  2. lyricist
  3. versifier
  4. poetaster
  5. bard
  6. composer
  7. librettist
  8. minstrel
Noun
  • That’s the secret poets know, and so does Madison Avenue.
    Ayad Akhtar, The Atlantic, 4 Dec. 2024
  • As for what's next, Morley-Chisholm and the rest of her team have gotten a lot of requests for more voices, from Mary, Queen of Scots, to the poet John Keats and composer Johann Sebastian Bach.
    Patrick Wood, NPR, 29 Nov. 2024
Definition of poet
Noun
  • The late Gordon Downie was/is, in my opinion, the greatest Canadian lyricist of all time.
    Liza Lentini, SPIN, 29 Nov. 2024
  • Few rappers get to write alongside a Pulitzer Prize-winning lyricist.
    August Brown, Los Angeles Times, 27 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
  • 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
  • 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
Definition of bard
Noun
  • Ellison serves as the film’s composer as well as director.
    Jack Dunn, Variety, 12 Dec. 2024
  • Whether Tammy was a sympathetic victim or a crass criminal seemed to depend on the scene and the song, and unfortunately, those songs from a composer by the name of Elton John were not exactly praise-worthy.
    EW Staff, EW.com, 11 Dec. 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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