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lyrist

noun

Definition of lyrist

as in poet

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Noun

At Hull’s railway station an hour or so later, a few Manchester United fans are scanning the departures board near Philip Larkin’s statue, which captures the late poet mid-stride.

— George Caulkin, New York Times, 25 Aug. 2026
Simeon’s Corey Randolph is a big guy with the soul of a poet and the hands of a sculptor.

— Patrick Z. McGavin, Chicago Tribune, 25 Aug. 2026

Definition of poet

Noun

Parton later served as the composer and lyricist for the musical.

— Emily Mae Czachor, CBS News, 26 Aug. 2026
The kick-off of Rush’s Fifty Something Tour marked their first shows since the devastating loss of drummer and lyricist Neil Peart in January 2020, and the first Rush concerts, period, in 11 years.

— Brian Hiatt, Rolling Stone, 23 Aug. 2026

Definition of lyricist

Noun

Heti’s detractors could probably put a bottle in the middle of a table and entertain themselves reading lines out of context in suave, poetaster voices.

— New York Times, New York Times, 7 Feb. 2022
But -aster words have never been particularly common, with the exception of poetaster, an inferior poet.

— Melissa Mohr, The Christian Science Monitor, 28 June 2018

Definition of poetaster

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Before it was written down, bards recited the adventures of Odysseus and the Greeks orally.

— Margherita Bassi, Popular Science, 19 Aug. 2026
Nolan sets the tone by opening with a bard (Travis Scott) beginning to tell the tale of the fall of Troy—at least the idealized heroic version that the bard’s audiences are hungry to hear.

— ArsTechnica, ArsTechnica, 1 Aug. 2026

Definition of bard

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Dolly Parton, the singer, composer, actress, philanthropist, advocate, and amusement park impresario, has died, her nephew Bryan Seaver confirmed on Tuesday, August 25.

— Jordan Hoffman, Vanity Fair, 25 Aug. 2026
Previous recipients of this award include Kazu Hiro, singers and songwriters Clément Ducol and Camille, cinematographer Łukasz Żal, composer Hildur Guðnadóttir, Ari Wegner, Terence Blanchard, and Roger Deakins.

— Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 25 Aug. 2026

Definition of composer

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The opera is composed by Grammy nominee Derrick Skye and the production’s artistic director, Diana Farrell, is the librettist.

— R. Daniel Foster, Forbes.com, 28 Mar. 2026
The description by the composer (who is also his librettist) can hardly be bettered.

— Classical Music Critic, Los Angeles Times, 27 Mar. 2026

Definition of librettist

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