Definitions for classicist

classicist clas·si·cist

Spelling: [klas-uh-sist]
IPA: /ˈklæs ə sɪst/

Classicist is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.

You can make 244 anagrams from letters in classicist (acciilssst).

Definitions for classicist

noun

  1. an adherent of classicism in literature or art (contrasted with romanticist).
  2. an authority on the classics; a classical scholar.
  3. a person who advocates study of the ancient Greek and Roman classics.

Origin of classicist

First recorded in 1820-30; classic + -ist

Examples for classicist

But though he was thus essentially a classicist, a mere classicist he was not.

She eschewed the classicist writers as though they had never existed.

An Oxford-trained classicist, he was elected president of the Oxford Union, a post filled by several future premiers.

He was a classicist who caught the new vision and sought to compromise.

Let the classicist determine which interpretation is the right one.

Stendhal has written that a classicist is a dead romanticist.

Yes, decidedly, he was no classicist in music; he was a thoroughgoing transcendentalist.

classicist James Romm writes that we have replaced head-to-head competition with collaboration and self-expression.

If you become an engineer, you will not condemn the classicist as useless.

Shortly before his death in 1882, Charles Darwin received a letter from a physician and classicist named William Ogle.

Word Value for classicist
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14

Words with friends

17

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