Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
- n. One who uses symbols or symbolism.
- n. One who interprets or represents conditions or truths by the use of symbols or symbolism.
- n. Any of a group of chiefly French writers and artists of the late 19th century who rejected realism and used symbols to evoke ideas and emotions.
- adj. Of or relating to symbolism.
- adj. Of or relating to the Symbolists.
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- adj. Of or pertaining to the Symbolist movement in late 19th-century and early 20th-century European arts and literature
- n. One who employs symbols.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
- n. One who employs symbols.
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Specifically One of a group of French poets of which Verlaine was the most conspieuous member.
- Of or pertaining to the Symbolists; characterized by symbolism.
- n. One who employs symbols; one who practises symbolism.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- n. someone skilled in the interpretation or representation of symbols
- n. a member of an artistic movement that expressed ideas indirectly via symbols
Etymologies
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Examples
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Symons did much to educate WBY in French symbolist literature.
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(And there are those who think the latter would more aptly be called a "symbolist" rather than a realist.)
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And there are those who think the latter would more aptly be called a "symbolist" rather than a realist.
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Novus with the recurrent angelic shapes in Shelley's poetry, but Shelley's shapes always remain genetically related to the revolutionary figure of Liberty Militant and in the Mask, at least, Shelley's "Shape arrayed in mail" is much less "symbolist" than Benjamin's dialectical images are.
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Introduction, for the purpose, that is to say, of tracing the genealogy of the Cubists and of Kandinsky, these two names may be taken to represent the modern expression of the "symbolist" tradition.
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All this does not presume to say that the "symbolist" school of art is necessarily nobler than the "naturalist."
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And the _blase_, weak-minded man of fashion is here, as well as the young "symbolist" of perverted, degraded mind.
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And the/blase/, weak-minded man of fashion is here, as well as the young "symbolist" of perverted, degraded mind.
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What does a French symbolist poet do in a world of cars, computers, and gasoline?
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If painting in watercolour really is irredeemably minor, then how to account for the haunting visions of William Blake, the proto-modernist landscapes of JS Cotman, key symbolist work by Edward Burne-Jones, Paul Nash's hellish war paintings, Edward Burra's grotesqueries, not forgetting some of Tracey Emin's more affecting pieces?
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