melodist
a composer or a singer of melodies.
Origin of melodist
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How to use melodist in a sentence
Outside the creations of the great Italian melodists he admitted no music whatever.
The Life & Letters of Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky | Modeste TchaikovskyThey are more earthly than Fra Angelico's melodists, and yet they are not precisely of human lineage.
And yet the tree-pipit is not very highly regarded among British melodists, on account of the little variety there is in its song.
Birds in Town and Village | W. H. HudsonThe merits of these writers have been perhaps too much depreciated by the admirers of the later Greek “Melodists.”
All the fauna of Britain—all the melodists of the woods—must die!
British Dictionary definitions for melodist
/ (ˈmɛlədɪst) /
a composer of melodies
a singer
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