rhapsodist

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: rhap=so=dist

CIDE DICTIONARY

rhapsodist, n. [From Rhapsody.].

•  Anciently, one who recited or composed a rhapsody; especially, one whose profession was to recite the verses of Hormer and other epic poets.  [1913 Webster]
•  Hence, one who recites or sings poems for a livelihood; one who makes and repeats verses extempore.  [1913 Webster]

  "The same populace sit for hours listening to rhapsodists who recite Ariosto."  [1913 Webster]
•  One who writes or speaks disconnectedly and with great excitement or affectation of feeling.  I. Watts.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

rhapsodist, n.
1 a person who rhapsodizes.
2 = RHAPSODE.

THESAURUS

rhapsodist

Don Quixote, Meistersinger, Parnassian, Quixote, addict, arch-poet, ballad maker, ballad singer, balladeer, balladmonger, bard, beat poet, bucoliast, bug, collector, daydreamer, demon, dreamer, dreamer of dreams, eager beaver, elegist, energumen, enthusiast, epic poet, escapist, faddist, fanatic, fiend, fili, folk singer, folk-rock singer, freak, gleeman, great one for, hobbyist, hound, idealist, idyllist, imagist, infatuate, jongleur, laureate, librettist, lotus-eater, major poet, maker, minnesinger, minor poet, minstrel, modernist, nut, occasional poet, odist, pastoral poet, pastoralist, poet, poet laureate, poetress, prophet, pursuer, rhapsode, romancer, romantic, romanticist, satirist, scop, seer, serenader, skald, sonneteer, street singer, strolling minstrel, sucker for, symbolist, troubadour, trouveur, trovatore, utopian, utopianist, utopianizer, vers libriste, vers-librist, visionary, wait, wandering minstrel, wishful thinker, zealot

ROGET THESAURUS

rhapsodist

Madman

N madman, lunatic, maniac, bedlamite, candidate for Bedlam, raver, madcap, crazy, energumen, automaniac, monomaniac, dipsomaniac, kleptomaniac, hypochondriac (low spirits), crank, Tom o'Bedlam, dreamer, rhapsodist, seer, highflier, enthusiast, fanatic, fanatico, exalte, knight errant, Don Quixote, idiot.

Imagination

N imagination, originality, invention, fancy, inspiration, verve, warm imagination, heated imagination, excited imagination, sanguine imagination, ardent imagination, fiery imagination, boiling imagination, wild imagination, bold imagination, daring imagination, playful imagination, lively imagination, fertile imagination, fancy, mind's eye, such stuff as dreams are made of, ideality, idealism, romanticism, utopianism, castle-building, dreaming, phrensy, frenzy, ecstasy, extasy, calenture, reverie, trance, day dream, golden dream, somnambulism, conception, Vorstellung, excogitation, a fine frenzy, cloudland, dreamland, flight of fancy, fumes of fancy, thick coming fancies, creation of the brain, coinage of the brain, imagery, conceit, maggot, figment, myth, dream, vision, shadow, chimera, phantasm, phantasy, fantasy, fancy, whim, whimsey, whimsy, vagary, rhapsody, romance, gest, geste, extravaganza, air drawn dagger, bugbear, nightmare, flying Dutchman, great sea serpent, man in the moon, castle in the air, pipe dream, pie-in-the-sky, chateau en Espagne, Utopia, Atlantis, happy valley, millennium, fairyland, land of Prester John, kindgom of Micomicon, work of fiction, Arabian nights, le pot au lait, dream of Alnashar, illusion, phantom, Fata Morgana, vapor, stretch of the imagination, mythogenesis, idealist, romanticist, visionary, mopus, romancer, dreamer, somnambulist, rhapsodist, castle-buildier, fanciful projector, imagined, ben trovato, air drawn, airbuilt, imagining, imaginative, original, inventive, creative, fertile, romantic, high flown, flighty, extravagant, fanatic, enthusiastic, unrealistic, Utopian, Quixotic, ideal, unreal, in the clouds, in nubibus, unsubsantial, illusory, fabulous, legendary, mythical, mythic, mythological, chimerical, imaginary, visionary, notional, fancy, fanciful, fantastic, fantastical, whimsical, fairy, fairy-like, gestic, a change came o'er the spirit of my dream, aegri somnia vana, dolphinum appingit sylvis in fluctibus aprum, fancy light from fancy caught, imagination rules the world, l'imagination gallope, le jugement ne va que le pas, musaeo contingens cuncta lepore, tous songes sont mensonges, Wahrheil und Dichtung, DIVISION II COMMUNICATION OF IDEAS.