rhapsodist
[rap-suh-dist]
noun
a person who rhapsodizes.
(in ancient Greece) a person who recited epic poetry, especially professionally.
RELATED WORDS
lyricist, writer, dramatist, author, artist, dilettante, rhymer, bard, versifier, maker, parodist, lyrist, librettist, poet, minstrel, balladeer, rhymester, muse, poetess, poetaster
Origin of rhapsodist
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This is not the joy of the fanatic or of the fakir or of the rhapsodist.
Studies in the Epistle of JamesA. T. Robertson
The rhapsodist added the passages to suit the Dionysus feast, at which he was reciting.
Homer and His AgeAndrew Lang
And Emerson, though in a different way from Nietzsche's, was also a rhapsodist.
Prophets of DissentOtto Heller
Liszt, that Hungarian rhapsodist in amours, was he not also an abbé?
The Love Affairs of Great Musicians, Volume 1Rupert Hughes
Antar was the rhapsodist as well as a participant in these contests.
rhapsodist
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