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WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun harper has 1 sense
- harper(n = noun.person) harpist - someone who plays the harp; Array is a kind of instrumentalist, musician, player
Derived form verb harp2
CIDE DICTIONARY
harper, n. [AS. hearpere.].
- A player on the harp; a minstrel. [1913 Webster]"The murmuring pines and the hemlocks . . .
Stand like harpers hoar, with beards that rest on their bosoms." [1913 Webster] - A brass coin bearing the emblem of a harp, -- formerly current in Ireland. B. Jonson. [1913 Webster]
ROGET THESAURUS
harper
Musician
N musician, artiste, performer, player, minstrel, bard, accompanist, accordionist, instrumentalist, organist, pianist, violinist, flautist, harper, fiddler, fifer, trumpeter, piper, drummer, catgut scraper, band, orchestral waits, vocalist, melodist, singer, warbler, songster, chaunter, chauntress, songstress, cantatrice, choir, quire, chorister, chorus, chorus singer, liedertafel, nightingale, philomel, thrush, siren, bulbul, mavis, Pierides, sacred nine, Orpheus, Apollo, the Muses Erato, Euterpe, Terpsichore, tuneful nine, tuneful quire, composer, performance, execution, touch, expression, solmization, playing, musical, adagio, andante.
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