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GONGORIST

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Overview

GONGORIST (noun)
  The noun GONGORIST has 1 sense:

1. a practitioner of the affected elegant style of the Spanish poet Gongoraplay

  Familiarity information: GONGORIST used as a noun is very rare.


English dictionary: Word details


GONGORIST (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

A practitioner of the affected elegant style of the Spanish poet Gongora

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("Gongorist" is a kind of...):

practician; practitioner (someone who practices a learned profession)


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