| 单词 | tragedy writer |
| 释义 | > as lemmastragedy writer tragedy writer n. = tragedian n. 1. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > writer or author > [noun] > writer of tragedy tragedian?c1400 tragedya1464 tragedy writer1552 tragic1594 tragedist1802 tragedianess1822 1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Tragedie wryter, tragicus, Sophocles. c1740 G. Walmsley Let. 2 Mar. in J. Hawkins Life Johnson (1787) 39 Johnson is a very good scholar and a poet, and, I have great hopes, will turn out a fine tragedy-writer. 1860 Chambers's Jrnl. 25 Feb. 113/1 The grief of the unsuccessful farce writer is much less sublime than that of the disappointed tragedy writer. 2000 Jerusalem Post (Nexis) 18 Feb. 20 Unlike the tragedy writers of ancient Greece who wrote in classical Greek, Aristophanes wrote his plays in the vernacular. < as lemmas |
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