单词 | songsmith |
释义 | songsmithn. A composer or maker of songs; a songwriter.In quot. 1795 in the title of a collection of songs. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > composing music > composer > [noun] > composer of songs madrigallera1704 songwriter1721 monodist1751 madrigalist1789 songsmith1795 myriologist1848 vaudevillist1879 1795 C. I. M. Dibdin (title) The song smith; or, rigmarole repository. 1844 S. Laing tr. S. Sturluson Heimskringla I. 165 He [sc. Odin] and his temple-gods were called song-smiths [Icel. ljóðasmiðir]. 1865 A. C. Swinburne Chastelard i. ii. 35 These jangling song-smiths are keen love-mongers, They snap at all meats. 1899 Month Apr. 354 Arnaldo Daniello, the great song-smith of the vulgar tongue. 1907 W. B. Rands Young Norseman 96 But it is not every song-smith who gets praise in our island at all times. 1986 W. Crutchfield in A. Blyth Song on Rec. I. 173 The songs are also problematic in that Liszt's best developed compositional gifts were hardly those of a song-smith. 2012 Time Out N.Y. 25 Oct. 78/3 It's a radio-ready folk-pop-soul disc that seems as if it came easier than breathing to the Maryland songsmith. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2017; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1795 |
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