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violinist
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun violinist has 1 sense
- violinist(n = noun.person) fiddler - a musician who plays the violin; Array is a kind of instrumentalist, musician, player
has particulars: arcangelo corelli, corelli, enesco, george enescu, georges enesco, grappelli, stephane grappelli, joachim, joseph joachim, fritz kreisler, kreisler, menuhin, sir yehudi menuhin, yehudi menuhin, niccolo paganini, paganini, isaac stern, stern, antonio lucio vivaldi, antonio vivaldi, vivaldi, efrem zimbalist, zimbalist, pinchas zukerman, zukerman
Derived form noun violin1
CIDE DICTIONARY
violinist, n. [Cf. F. violiniste, violoniste, It. violonista.].
A player on the violin. [1913 Webster]
ROGET THESAURUS
violinist
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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