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songwriter Definition

song·writer (-rīt′ər)

noun

a person who writes the words or music or both for songs, esp. popular songs

songwriter Usage Examples

Converse of object

  • underrate: Ben Sidran is a vastly underrated singer songwriter with a style not dis-similar to Michael Franks with a slightly ' tougher ' delivery.
  • bud: This seems an excellent and very practical plan of action to be recommended to budding songwriters of whatever musical persuasion.
  • bear: An Ottawa born singer songwriter, Jim writes 9 songs for this 36 minutes CD.
  • base: Emma Forman is a young singer songwriter based in Scotland.
  • become: Randy Newman later became a professional songwriter on a salary, turning out pop songs for others to sing.
  • win: GARY BARLOW The award winning songwriter for the band.

Converse of subject

  • write: Prior to the Beatles and their ilk songs were predominantly written by predominantly male songwriters.

Adjective modifier

  • prolific: Dino writes songs walking from the bathroom to the kitchen; he's really a prolific songwriter.
  • gifted: He is a gifted songwriter with a great way with lyrics.
  • accomplished: He was a fine saxophone player as well as an accomplished songwriter.
  • talented: Kay Chance, a talented songwriter, wrote the song " Ah Lord God " .
  • aspiring: Roger is an aspiring songwriter who has emotionally shut down after his girlfriend's suicide.
  • legendary: HEART OF GOLD AN EVENING IN CELEBRATION OF NEIL YOUNG An evening packed with gems from the legendary songwriter.

Modifies a noun

  • night: I've forgotten how to do anything else and I was meant to do a songwriter night the other night.

Noun used with modifier

  • singer-: Benjamin Wetherill, a singer- songwriter with the chilling looks of H.P Lovecraft played a beautiful set of songs inspired by medieval folk.
  • singer: Simply the best singer songwriter in the UK today.
  • pop: Leah visited Cass in Los Angeles and soon found herself among the new generation of Hollywood pop songwriters.
  • hit: Nate James is a British soul singer and hit songwriter.

Possessives

  • band: The Verve's second album, A NORTHERN SOUL sees Richard Ashcroft's emergence as the band's primary songwriter.

Preposition: in

  • band: There isn't one main songwriter in the band, we just get together and see what happens.