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シンボリスト (しんぼりすと) Japanese meaning | Kotomora

シンボリスト

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Meanings

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Refers to a person who uses symbols in art or literature, or an adherent of the Symbolist movement.

彼かれは19世せい紀きのフランスのシンボリスト詩し人じんを研けん究きゅうして

いる

。

He studies 19th-century French symbolist poets.

Related words

象しょう徴ちょう主しゅ義ぎ
象徴主義 is the abstract movement of Symbolism itself, while シンボリスト refers to a person who practices or adheres to it.

Don't confuse with

象しょう徴ちょうN1
象徴 means the symbol or the act of symbolizing itself, whereas シンボリスト is a person associated with the Symbolist artistic movement.

Etymology

Borrowed from English 'symbolist'.