ELEGIST

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

The author of a mournful poem lamenting the dead

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

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

poet (a writer of poems (the term is usually reserved for writers of good poetry))

Derivation:

elegy (a mournful poem; a lament for the dead)

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