Word Meanings - LYRIST - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A musician who plays on the harp or lyre; a composer of lyrical poetry. Shelley.

Related words: (words related to LYRIST)

• COMPOSER
  1. One who composes; an author. Specifically, an author of a piece of music. If the thoughts of such authors have nothing in them, they at least . . . show an honest industry and a good intention in the composer. Addison. His most brilliant and
• PLAYSOME
  Playful; wanton; sportive. R. Browning. -- Play"some*ness, n.
• LYRICALLY
  In a lyrical manner.
• POETRY
  1. The art of apprehending and interpreting ideas by the faculty of imagination; the art of idealizing in thought and in expression. For poetry is the blossom and the fragrance of all human knowledge, human thoughts, human passions, emotions,
• MUSICIAN
  One skilled in the art or science of music; esp., a skilled singer, or performer on a musical instrument.
• LYRIC; LYRICAL
  1. Of or pertaining to a lyre or harp. 2. Fitted to be sung to the lyre; hence, also, appropriate for song; -- said especially of poetry which expresses the individual emotions of the poet. "Sweet lyric song." Milton.
• RECOMPOSER
  One who recomposes.