Definitions for melodist

melodist mel·o·dist

Spelling: [mel-uh-dist]
IPA: /ˈmɛl ə dɪst/

Melodist is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 449 anagrams from letters in melodist (deilmost).

Definitions for melodist

noun

  1. a composer or a singer of melodies.

Origin of melodist

First recorded in 1780-90; melod(y) + -ist

Examples for melodist

As is shown by the two or three vocal works of his that I have seen, Gleason is less successful as a melodist than as a harmonist.

His songs prove him to be a melodist, the most original since Brahms in this form.

Leoncavallo is never much of a melodist, and 'Pagliacci' teems with reminiscences.

It sometimes is contended that Wagner adopted his system of leading motives because he was not a melodist.

Bellini was essentially a melodist, a lyric composer of ideallic naiveté.

In 1825 Moore paid a visit to Scott, who pronounced the Irish melodist the "prettiest warbler" he had ever heard.

More pleasantly thus wilt thou labour, and, indeed, of old thou wert a melodist.

Italy has produced no melodist equal to him, and Germany only one—Franz Schubert.

Word Value for melodist
Scrable

11

Words with friends

13

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