noun ·Uncommon ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun

1. 1
   A writer of funeral songs; one who writes in elegiac verse
2. 2
   the author of a mournful poem lamenting the dead wordnet

Synonyms

All synonyms

arch-poetballad makerballadmongerbardbeat poetbucoliast

Etymology

From elegy + -ist.

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