Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Music One who plays a lyre.
- noun A lyric poet.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A performer on the lyre; a composer, singer, or reciter of lyrics.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A musician who plays on the harp or lyre; a composer of lyrical poetry.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun music A person who plays the
lyre . - noun music
lyricist - noun A lyrical poet
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a person who writes the words for songs
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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"lyrist," appear only when the time is ripe for them.
A Handbook to the Works of Browning (6th ed.) Sutherland Orr 1865
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Romanus, St. Romanos the Melodist the great ecclesiastical lyrist of the Greek Church, composed for it a hymn
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It is long since we have as good a lyrist; it will be long before we have his superior.
Uncollected Prose 2006
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The lyrist strikes the string; gay youths advance,
The Odyssey of Homer 2003
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Live music was provided by an accomplished lyrist dressed in Greek slave's robes.
Time Scout Asprin, Robert 1995
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As I write this, I am tempted to wish that, instead of having been a lyrist by birth, I could become one by conviction: a lyrist by my own choice.
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I was born to be a lyrist, and I have always remained one.
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Blake, deeply romantic as he is by nature, virtually stands by himself, apart from any movement or group, and the same is equally true of the somewhat earlier lyrist in whom eighteenth century poetry culminates, namely Robert Burns.
A History of English Literature Robert Huntington Fletcher
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Moore was another lyrist whose poetry Scott greatly admired.
Sir Walter Scott as a Critic of Literature Margaret Ball
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But in the pity almost divine with which Hood sings her fate there is not only a spotless delicacy, there is also a morality as elevated as the heavenly mercy which the lyrist breathes.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 37, November, 1860 Various
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