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improvisator

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[im-prov-uh-zey-ter, im-pruh-vuh-] / ɪmˈprɒv əˌzeɪ tər, ˈɪm prə və- /

noun

  1. a person who improvises; improviser.


Etymology

Origin of improvisator

1785–95; improvise + -ator; compare Italian improvvisatore

Example Sentences

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He was invited that evening to a soiree by the queen-mother, where he wished to shine as an improvisator.

From Berlin and Sans-Souci; or Frederick the Great and his friends by Mühlbach, L. (Luise)

Syrus was not a literary man, but an improvisator and moralist.

From The History of Roman Literature From the earliest period to the death of Marcus Aurelius by Cruttwell, Charles Thomas

In his eye the lambent fire, Of his thought the glint, showed kinship With the free improvisator In the land of warmth and vineyards.

From Poems and Songs by Palmer, Arthur Hubbell

Beronicius, the Greek and Latin improvisator, who knew by heart Horace, Virgil, Cicero, Juvenal, both the Plinys, Homer, and Aristophănês.

From Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook, Vol. 3 by Brewer, Ebenezer Cobham

The improvisator was given a theme of which he knew nothing, and on which he discoursed, often brilliantly.

From The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 10 Prince Otto Von Bismarck, Count Helmuth Von Moltke, Ferdinand Lassalle by Francke, Kuno