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LYRICIST

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Dictionary entry overview: What does lyricist mean?

• LYRICIST (noun)
The noun LYRICIST has 1 sense:

1. a person who writes the words for songs

Familiarity information: LYRICIST used as a noun is very rare.

Dictionary entry details

• LYRICIST (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

A person who writes the words for songs

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

lyricist; lyrist

Hypernyms ("lyricist" is a kind of...):

author; writer (writes (books or stories or articles or the like) professionally (for pay))

Instance hyponyms:

Gershwin; Ira Gershwin (United States lyricist who frequently collaborated with his brother George Gershwin (1896-1983))

Hammerstein; Oscar Hammerstein; Oscar Hammerstein II (United States lyricist who collaborated on many musical comedies (most successfully with Richard Rodgers) (1895-1960))

Hart; Lorenz Hart; Lorenz Milton Hart (United States lyricist who collaborated with Richard Rodgers (1895-1943))

Alan Jay Lerner; Lerner (United States lyricist who collaborated on musicals with Frederick Loewe (1918-1986))

Rice; Sir Tim Rice; Timothy Miles Bindon Rice (English lyricist who frequently worked with Andrew Lloyd Webber (born in 1944))

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