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librettist

noun

Definition of librettist

as in lyricist

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Recent Examples of librettist The Grammys and the opera category The Best Opera Recording award goes to the conductor, album producers, principal soloists, and the composer and librettist, if applicable, of a world premiere opera recording. — Adam Bell, Charlotte Observer, 30 Jan. 2026 Their liberating actions are symbolic by design, according to Davis and librettist Havis. — George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Jan. 2026 Terese Svoboda is an American poet, novelist, memoirist, short story writer, librettist, translator, biographer, critic, and videomaker. — Literary Hub, 18 Dec. 2025 The librettist Gene Scheer thinned this fat, meaty book down to a fleet skeleton, organizing the characters into shifting pairs. — Justin Davidson, Vulture, 30 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for librettist

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Noun

Parton later served as the composer and lyricist for the musical.

— Emily Mae Czachor, CBS News, 26 Aug. 2026
The kick-off of Rush’s Fifty Something Tour marked their first shows since the devastating loss of drummer and lyricist Neil Peart in January 2020, and the first Rush concerts, period, in 11 years.

— Brian Hiatt, Rolling Stone, 23 Aug. 2026

Definition of lyricist

Noun

His directorial debut, Otherworld, made in collaboration with Odanak Abenaki writer and composer Mali Obomsawin, premiered at BlackStar in August 2025.

— Matthew Carey, Deadline, 31 Aug. 2026
Alongside Gyllenhaal and Ben Hania, the jurists include English composer Daniel Blumberg, Italian professor Francesco Casetti, French writer-director Xavier Giannoli, Afghan writer-director Shahrbanoo Sadat, and Hong Kong director Johnnie To.

— Bethy Squires, Vulture, 29 Aug. 2026

Definition of composer

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Rusty Chocolate Ella Bright has cemented her status as an eternal fall muse, thanks in no small part to her Off Campus success.

— Alyssa Rotunno, InStyle, 27 Aug. 2026
Grace Jones has been a muse to Azzedine Alaïa, and Tracee Ellis Ross has gone from walking Thierry Mugler’s runway alongside her mother in the ’90s to being an inspiration to designers like Marc Jacobs, our 2026 Style Issue cover star.

— Vanity Fair, Vanity Fair, 25 Aug. 2026

Definition of muse

Noun

Heti’s detractors could probably put a bottle in the middle of a table and entertain themselves reading lines out of context in suave, poetaster voices.

— New York Times, New York Times, 7 Feb. 2022
But -aster words have never been particularly common, with the exception of poetaster, an inferior poet.

— Melissa Mohr, The Christian Science Monitor, 28 June 2018

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