单词 | songwright |
释义 | > as lemmassongwright songwright n. ΚΠ ?1780 R. Lewis Pleasing Moralist I. vi. 65 Thus sing our modern song-wrights too. 1892 Athenæum 23 July 124/3 He places Herrick above Shakspeare as a song-wright. 1916 Month Jan. 431 No one, not the song-wright himself, could claim that that stanza..was anything but prose versified. 1940 H. V. D. Dyson & J. Butt Augustans & Romantics, 1689–1830 iii. 79 Most were brilliant refurbishings of ancient Scottish numbers: for Burns as song-wright, preferring the life and world he knew best, turned again to the folk-airs and dance tunes. 1987 New Mexican (Santa Fe) 4 Dec. (Pasatiempo Suppl.) 2/3 Local songwright Jim Terr is peddling a new sound, Hello, Mr. Gorbachev (Blue Canyon Music), which was recorded in Madrid. < as lemmas |
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