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
She is best as a lyrist, and some of her poems are touched with a very fine and true pathos.
From The Age of Tennyson by Walker, Hugh
Himself a lyrist of distinction, Stefan Zweig has accomplished the difficult feat, which in this country still waits to be done, of translating the great mass of Verhaeren's poems into actual and enduring verse.
From ?mile Verhaeren by Zweig, Stefan
Simonides is the first Greek lyrist whose significance is not merely Aeolian or Dorian but Panhellenic.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 5 "Greek Law" to "Ground-Squirrel" by Various
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