lyrist
Americannoun
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a person who plays the lyre or who sings and accompanies their own vocals with a lyre.
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a lyric poet.
noun
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a person who plays the lyre
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another word for lyricist
Etymology
Origin of lyrist
First recorded in 1650–60; from Latin lyristēs, from Greek lyristḗs; see lyre, -ist
Example Sentences
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Famously, Orfeo, a master poet, singer and lyrist, convincingly serenades Caronte, followed by Pluto, lord of the underworld, begging that love beat death, that his wife go home with him across the river.
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 18, 2018
A lyrist playing to a herd of cows masticating their own ignorance, Bella often thought.
From The New Yorker • May 1, 2017
"Before everything I am enamoured of thy blonde tresses," says one lyrist.
From Essays in the Study of Folk-Songs (1886) by Martinengo-Cesaresco, Countess Evelyn
Ramsay, according to this basis of distinction, was, as has been said, rather a song-writer than a lyrist.
From Allan Ramsay Famous Scots Series by Smeaton, William Henry Oliphant
Gosse as a poet may be described as a lyrist with attractive descriptive powers.
From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 16 by Various
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