lyrist in English

noun
1
a person who plays the lyre.
‘Beyond the Sea’ began its long journey as the immensely popular French song ‘La Mer,’ written by lyrist and composer Charles Trenet.
2
a lyric poet.
The ‘Pilgrim of Eternity’ is Byron and the ‘sweetest lyrist ’ from wild Ierne is Thomas Moore.

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1. Allegorist •tantrist •guitarist, scenarist, tsarist •sitarist • memoirist • belletrist •centrist • Marist • sacrist •lyrist, panegyrist

2. Last weekend, the Cretan Federation of Australia & New Zealand, in collaboration with the the PanCretan Association of Melbourne and the Cretan Brotherhood of Melbourne, hosted a tribute concert for the great Cretan lyrist Kostas Mountakis.