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metaphrasts

metaphrasts is the plural of metaphrast.

Meaning of metaphrast

Noun

metaphrast (plural metaphrasts)

  1. A person who uses metaphrase to re-cast a text in a different form, for example from poetry to prose.
    • A metaphrast has re-written Ian McEwan's book Atonement as a poem.

Questions about metaphrasts

What is metaphrasts the plural of?
Metaphrasts is the plural of metaphrast.

Words near metaphrasts in the dictionary

  1. metaphrasis
  2. metaphrast
  3. metaphrastic
  4. metaphrastical
  5. metaphrastically
  6. metaphrasts
  7. metaphylactic
  8. metaphylactically
  9. metaphylatic
  10. metaphylaxis
  11. metaphyseal

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Adapted from Wiktionary: metaphrasts (page history and authors); metaphrast (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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