symbolist

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.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

• 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. One who employs symbols; one who practises symbolism.
• 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.

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