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librettist

librettist noun: the person who writes a libretto.

Noun

librettist (plural librettists)

  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.2002 January 3, Richard Traubner, “Mozart's Singspiel”, in Playbill

Forms of librettist

plurallibrettists

Origin of librettist

From libretto + -ist.

Questions about librettist

What does librettist mean?
Librettist means the person who writes a libretto.
What part of speech is librettist?
Librettist is a noun.
What is the plural of librettist?
The plural of librettist is librettists.

Words near librettist in the dictionary

  1. libratory
  2. libre
  3. libre software
  4. libres
  5. libretti
  6. librettist
  7. librettistic
  8. librettistics
  9. librettists
  10. libretto
  11. librettology

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