Definition of Symbolist

1. Noun. A member of an artistic movement that expressed ideas indirectly via symbols.

Generic synonyms: Artist, Creative Person
Derivative terms: Symbolism, Symbolism

2. Noun. Someone skilled in the interpretation or representation of symbols.
Exact synonyms: Symboliser, Symbolizer
Generic synonyms: Interpreter, Translator
Derivative terms: Symbolise, Symbolism, Symbolism, Symbolize

Definition of Symbolist

1. n. One who employs symbols.

Definition of Symbolist

1. Adjective. (arts literature) Of or pertaining to the Symbolist movement in late 19th-century and early 20th-century European arts and literature ¹

2. Noun. One who employs symbols. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Symbolist

1. [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Symbolist

symbolically
symbolicalness
symbolicism
symbolicisms
symbolics
symboling
symbolisable
symbolisation
symbolise
symbolised
symboliser
symbolises
symbolising
symbolism
symbolisms
symbolist
symbolistic
symbolists
symbolizable
symbolization
symbolizations
symbolize
symbolized
symbolizer
symbolizers
symbolizes
symbolizing
symbolled
symbolling
symbological

Literary usage of Symbolist

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Studies in Seven Arts by Arthur Symons (1907)
"The play is the first Symbolist farce ; it has the crudity of a schoolboy or a savage; what is, after all, most remarkable about it is the insolence with ..."

2. Studies in Two Literatures by Arthur Symons (1897)
"A Symbolist FARCE THE performance of Ubu Roi: comedie guigno- lesque, by M. Alfred Jarry, at the Theatre de ..."

3. Studies in Two Literatures by Arthur Symons (1897)
"A Symbolist FARCE THE performance of Ubu Roi: comedie guigno- lesque, by M. Alfred Jarry, at the Theatre de ..."

4. Poems by Alfred Noyes, Hamilton Wright Mabie (1906)
"THE Symbolist HELP me to seek that unknown land, Help me to see the shrine, Help me to feel the hidden hand That ever holdeth mine. Help me to seek, ..."

5. The Craftsman by Gustav Stickley (1905)
"CLIO HINTON BRACKEN, WOMAN SCULPTOR AND Symbolist OF THE NEW ART. BY MARY ANNABLE FANTON OME one has defined genius as the power of expressing in art by ..."

6. Studies in Seven Arts by Arthur Symons (1907)
"The play is the first Symbolist farce ; it has the crudity of a schoolboy or a savage; what is, after all, most remarkable about it is the insolence with ..."

7. Studies in Two Literatures by Arthur Symons (1897)
"A Symbolist FARCE THE performance of Ubu Roi: comedie guigno- lesque, by M. Alfred Jarry, at the Theatre de ..."

8. Studies in Two Literatures by Arthur Symons (1897)
"A Symbolist FARCE THE performance of Ubu Roi: comedie guigno- lesque, by M. Alfred Jarry, at the Theatre de ..."

9. Poems by Alfred Noyes, Hamilton Wright Mabie (1906)
"THE Symbolist HELP me to seek that unknown land, Help me to see the shrine, Help me to feel the hidden hand That ever holdeth mine. Help me to seek, ..."

10. The Craftsman by Gustav Stickley (1905)
"CLIO HINTON BRACKEN, WOMAN SCULPTOR AND Symbolist OF THE NEW ART. BY MARY ANNABLE FANTON OME one has defined genius as the power of expressing in art by ..."

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