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LIBRETTIST

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does librettist mean? 

LIBRETTIST (noun)
  The noun LIBRETTIST has 1 sense:

1. author of words to be set to music in an opera or operettaplay

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


 Dictionary entry details 


LIBRETTIST (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Author of words to be set to music in an opera or operetta

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

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

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

Instance hyponyms:

Gilbert; Sir William Gilbert; William Gilbert; William S. Gilbert; William Schwenk Gilbert (a librettist who was a collaborator with Sir Arthur Sullivan in a famous series of comic operettas (1836-1911))

Derivation:

libretto (the words of an opera or musical play)


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