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lyrist

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lyr·ist  (lrst)
n.
1. Music See lyricist.
2. (lrst) Music One who plays a lyre.
3. A lyric poet.
[Latin lyrists, lyre player, from Greek lurists, from lura, lyre.]
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.lyrist - a person who writes the words for songs
lyricist
author, writer - writes (books or stories or articles or the like) professionally (for pay)


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Here the Emperor sent his minister for Li Po, and here the great lyrist set her mortal beauty to glow from the scented, flower-haunted balustrade immortally through the twilights yet to come.
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(5) She is said to have given birth to the lyrist Stesichorus.
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But when the question arose whether he was not only a lyrist but a poet, we were obliged to confess that he is plainly a contemporary, not an eternal man.
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