Usually means: Praiser of people or things.
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  1. encomiast: Merriam-Webster
  2. encomiast: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. encomiast: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. encomiast: Collins English Dictionary
  5. encomiast: Wordnik
  6. encomiast: Wiktionary
  7. encomiast: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. encomiast: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  9. encomiast: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. Encomiast, encomiast: Dictionary.com
  11. Encomiast: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  12. encomiast: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  13. Encomiast: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  14. encomiast: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  15. encomiast: FreeDictionary.org
  16. encomiast: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  17. encomiast: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. encomiast: Legal dictionary

(Note: See encomiastic as well.)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (encomiast)

▸ noun:  A person who delivers an encomium or eulogy.

Similar:
eulogizer, eulogist, elegiast, elogist, commender, complimentee, extoller, laudator, commemorator, congratulator, more...

Opposite:
critic, detractor, censurer, disparager

Adjectives:
willing, such, wholesale, trite, young, servile, own, travagant, skilful, better, roman

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Similar:
eulogizer, eulogist, elegiast, elogist, commender, complimentee, extoller, laudator, commemorator, congratulator, more...

Opposite:
critic, detractor, censurer, disparager

Adjectives:
willing, such, wholesale, trite, young, servile, own, travagant, skilful, better, roman



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