poet-singer

Definitions of poet-singer
  1. noun
    a singer of folk songs
    synonyms: folk singer, minstrel, troubadour
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    examples:
    Woodrow Wilson Guthrie
    United States folk singer and songwriter (1912-1967)
    Peter Seeger
    United States folk singer who was largely responsible for the interest in folk music in the 1960s (born in 1919)
    type of:
    singer, vocaliser, vocalist, vocalizer
    a person who sings
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