Symbolist Definition

sĭmbə-lĭst
noun
A person who uses symbols, as in art or literature.
Webster's New World
Any of a group of French and Belgian writers and artists of the late 19th cent. who rejected realism and tried to express ideas, emotions, and attitudes by the use of symbolic words, figures, objects, etc.
Webster's New World
A person who studies or is expert in interpreting symbols or symbolism.
Webster's New World
Synonyms:
adjective
Of or relating to symbolism.
American Heritage
Of or relating to the Symbolists.
American Heritage
(art, literature) Of or pertaining to the Symbolist movement in late 19th-century and early 20th-century European arts and literature.
Wiktionary

Other Word Forms of Symbolist

Noun

Singular:
symbolist
Plural:
symbolists

Origin of Symbolist

  • From French symboliste, coined by poet Paul Verlaine in 1885.

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Symbolist Sentence Examples

  • He was by turns naturalist, lyrist and symbolist; and it has been claimed that the germs of all the later developments in Belgian letters may be traced in his work.

  • Poe 's poetry was a major influence on the French symbolist poets.

  • The second island is that of the Temptress - inspired to a degree by the symbolist paintings of the late nineteenth century.

  • The symbolist movement was largely underpinned by occult philosophy.

  • Burne-Jones was also highly influential among French symbolist painters, from 1889.

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Words Starting With

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