musician
Other forms: musicians
Anyone who plays music can be called a musician. Whether you're playing the cello on stage at Carnegie Hall or playing the harmonica on a subway platform, you're a musician.
While this word is most often used to mean a professional instrumentalist, it can also refer to someone who writes or sings music, and even your brother's friend who occasionally plays the drums in a Led Zeppelin cover band. Musician originally meant "one skilled in music," from the Latin musica, "the art of music and poetry," which has a Greek root, mousike, "art of the Muses."
Definitions of musician
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someone who plays a musical instrument (as a profession)synonyms: instrumentalist, playertypes:accordionista musician who plays the accordionbandsmana player in a band (especially a military band)bassista musician who plays the lowest-pitched string instrument such as a bass guitar or double bassbassoonista musician who plays the bassoonbell ringersomeone who plays musical handbellscarillonneura musician who plays a carillongambista musician who performs upon the viola da gambaharpsichordistsomeone who plays the harpsichordhornista musician who plays a horn (especially a French horn)keyboardista musician who plays a keyboard instrumentkoto playera musician who plays the kotooboista musician who plays the oboeorganista person who plays an organpercussionista musician who plays percussion instrumentsrecorder playersomeone who plays the recorderrhythm and blues musiciana performer (and sometimes composer) of rhythm and blues musicsitar playera musician who plays the sitarsoloista musician who performs a soloviolista musician who plays the violaaltoa singer whose voice lies in the alto clefbuglersomeone who plays a buglecanarya female singercastratoa male singer who was castrated before puberty and retains a soprano or alto voicechoristera member of a singing group, especially in churchcontraltoa woman singer having a contralto voicecymbalista performer on the cymbalsdrummersomeone who plays a drumhummera singer who produces a tune without opening the lips or forming wordslieder singera singer of liedermadrigalista singer of madrigalspipe majorthe chief piper in a band of bagpipesrappersomeone who performs rap musicrecitalista musician who gives recitalsrock stara famous singer of rock musicsongstera person who singssopranoa female singersyncopatora musician who plays syncopated jazz music (usually in a dance band)tenoran adult male with a tenor voicethrusha woman who sings popular songstorch singera singer (usually a woman) who specializes in singing torch songsvoice(metonymy) a singerwarblera singer; usually a singer who adds embellishments to the songxylophonistsomeone who plays a xylophonetype of:
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artist who composes or conducts music as a professionexamples:Victor HerbertUnited States musician and composer and conductor noted for his comic operas (1859-1924)Yoko OnoUnited States musician (born in Japan) who married John Lennon and collaborated with him on recordings (born in 1933)Carl OrffGerman musician who developed a widely used system for teaching music to children (1895-1982)types:adapter, arranger, transcribera musician who adapts a composition for particular voices or instruments or for another style of performancecomposersomeone who composes music as a professionvirtuosoa musician who is a consummate master of technique and artistrycontrapuntista composer who specializes in counterpointbandleaderthe leader of a dance bandbandmasterthe conductor of a banddrum majorthe leader of a marching band or drum corpsorchestratoran arranger who writes for orchestraspsalmista composer of sacred songssymphonista composer of symphoniestype of:
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Florida's B.E.S.T. Common Suffixes: -an
This vocabulary list features words with the common suffix that means "one having a certain skill; relating or belonging to."