cornetist

Other forms: cornetists

Definitions of cornetist
  1. noun
    a musician who plays the trumpet or cornet
    synonyms: trumpeter
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    examples:
    Louis Armstrong
    United States pioneering jazz trumpeter and bandleader (1900-1971)
    John Birks Gillespie
    United States jazz trumpeter and exponent of bebop (1917-1993)
    types:
    bugler
    someone who plays a bugle
    type of:
    instrumentalist, musician, player
    someone who plays a musical instrument (as a profession)
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