Aphorist

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. A writer of aphorisms.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. A writer or utterer of aphorisms.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. A person who writes or recites aphorisms.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. someone who formulates aphorisms or who repeats aphorisms
  • Word Usage
    "Devotees of popular history will have met some of these stories in the work of Liza Picard, Witold Rybczynski, Daniel Boorstin and others, but it's hard to imagine a better synthesizer than Bryson, or a pithier aphorist."
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