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ELEGIST
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Dictionary entry overview: What does elegist mean?
• ELEGIST (noun)
The noun ELEGIST has 1 sense:
1. the author of a mournful poem lamenting the dead
Familiarity information: ELEGIST used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The author of a mournful poem lamenting the dead
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Hypernyms ("elegist" is a kind of...):
poet (a writer of poems (the term is usually reserved for writers of good poetry))
Derivation:
elegy (a mournful poem; a lament for the dead)
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