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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

improvisator en · NOUN

Etymology

From improvise + -ator, after French improvisateur and Italian improvvisatore.

Meanings

  1. Someone who improvises; improviser.
  2. An improvisatore.
    • They did not offer the people those gross pleasures which brutalize them; but they gave them music, paintings, improvisators, and festivals, and the government watched over the people as a sultan does over his seraglio. 1807, [Germaine] de Staël Holstein, translated by D[ennis] Lawler, “[Book XV. The Farewell to Rome, and the Journey to Venice.] Chap[ter] VIII.”, in Corinna; or, Italy. […], volume IV, London: […] Corri, […]; and sold by Colburn, […], and Mackenzie, […], →OCLC, page 144:

Forms

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Deriveds

improvisatorize