Librettist

noun

noun ·3 syllables ·Moderate ·College level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    The person who writes a libretto.

    "It was secondhand‹make that fourth- or fifthhand. This was from an era before any kind of copyright, when librettists were almost expected to steal from other works."

  2. 2
    author of words to be set to music in an opera or operetta wordnet

Example

More examples

"It was secondhand‹make that fourth- or fifthhand. This was from an era before any kind of copyright, when librettists were almost expected to steal from other works."

Etymology

From libretto + -ist.

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