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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 operetta
Familiarity information: LIBRETTIST used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
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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