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Definition of Symbolist
1. Noun. A member of an artistic movement that expressed ideas indirectly via symbols.
2. Noun. Someone skilled in the interpretation or representation of symbols.
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
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 ..."