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eulogist

noun

eulogist is a noun meaning “A speaker who delivers a funeral oration (eulogy) for a deceased person” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled E-U-L-O-G-I-S-T, and it appears about once in every 98 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of eulogist is eulogists.

What does eulogist mean?

noun

  1. 1

    A speaker who delivers a funeral oration (eulogy) for a deceased person.

  2. 2

    A person who praises another person or thing.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Forms of eulogist

  • eulogists plural

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How common is eulogist?

Eulogist appears about once in every 98 million words in written English, the 317,168th most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

Where does eulogist come from?

From eulogy + -ist.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).