Definition of rhapsodist in English:
rhapsodist
noun ˈrapsədɪstˈræpsədəst
1A person who speaks or writes about someone or something with great enthusiasm and delight.
Example sentencesExamples
- Hamlet, like Richard II, meant to be by temperament a lyrical poet, a splendid commentator and rhapsodist, is forced to plunge into a series of frenetic occasions.
- There, the great rhapsodist of liberty certainly owned, and probably bought and sold, domestic slaves.
- You can feel the heat coming off such writing, confirmation that at her best Michele Leggott is arguably our finest living female rhapsodist.
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another term for rhapsode
Example sentencesExamples
- George Buchanan, once the queen's rhapsodist, provided the immediate, official version.
- Schiller's works must be read aloud, in the manner of the rhapsodists of ancient Greece.