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elegist
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun elegist has 1 sense
- elegist(n = noun.person) - the author of a mournful poem lamenting the dead; is a kind of poet
Derived form noun elegy1
THESAURUS
elegist
Meistersinger, Parnassian, arch-poet, ballad maker, balladmonger, bard, beat poet, bucoliast, epic poet, fili, idyllist, imagist, jongleur, laureate, librettist, major poet, maker, minnesinger, minor poet, minstrel, modernist, occasional poet, odist, pastoral poet, pastoralist, poet, poet laureate, poetress, rhapsode, rhapsodist, satirist, scop, skald, sonneteer, symbolist, troubadour, trouveur, trovatore, vers libriste, vers-librist
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