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satirist

satirist noun: a person who writes satire.

Noun

satirist (plural satirists)

  1. A person who writes satire.
    • In one of the Greek satirist Lucian's Dialogues of Courtesans, a conversation takes place between the hetaira Tryphaena and a young client named Charmides.1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 129

satirist meaning in Urdu, Bengali, Kannada and Malay

satirist in Urdu

ہجو گو, طناز, ضاحک

satirist in Bengali

satirist
খিল্লিবাজ khillibaj

satirist in Kannada

ವಿಡಂಬನಕಾರ, ವ್ಯಂಗ್ಯರಚನಕಾರ, ಅಣಕುಗಾರ

satirist in Malay

a person who writes satire
satirawan
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satirist in Indonesian
satiris

Examples of satirist in a sentence

  • What satirist could then top Texas Republican Joe Barton's coerced, linguistically mangled fauxpology?
  • Marston poses as the Timonist malcontent satirist ready to excoriate the world for its follies.
  • He was a gift to comedians and satirists, who were thrilled with the possibilities of four years of Quaylisms.

All 11 example sentences with satirist

Forms of satirist

pluralsatirists

Plural of satirist: satirists

Origin of satirist

From satire + -ist.

Questions about satirist

What does satirist mean?
Satirist means a person who writes satire.
What is satirist in Urdu?
Satirist in Urdu is ہجو گو, طناز, ضاحک. See Satirist meaning in Urdu.
What part of speech is satirist?
Satirist is a noun.
What is the plural of satirist?
The plural of satirist is satirists.

Words near satirist in the dictionary

  1. satiriser
  2. satirisers
  3. satirises
  4. satirising
  5. satirism
  6. satirist
  7. satirists
  8. satirizable
  9. satirization
  10. satirizations
  11. satirize

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: satirist (page history and authors); satirist (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); খিল্লিবাজ (Bengali) (page history and authors); satirist (Kannada Wiktionary) (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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