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Noun vocalist has 1 sense
- vocalist(n = noun.person) singer, vocaliser, vocalizer - a person who sings; Array has particulars: alto, baritone, barytone, bass, basso, canary, caroler, caroller, castrato, chorister, contralto, balladeer, crooner, folk singer, jongleur, minstrel, poet-singer, troubadour, hummer, lieder singer, madrigalist, opera star, operatic star, rapper, rock star, songster, soprano, tenor, thrush, torch singer, voice, warbler, yodeller, bailey, pearl bailey, pearl mae bailey, cash, john cash, johnny cash, chevalier, maurice chevalier, dietrich, maria magdalene von losch, marlene dietrich, bob dylan, dylan, ella fitzgerald, fitzgerald, garland, judy garland, horne, lena calhoun horne, lena horne, iglesias, julio iglesias, jackson, mahalia jackson, jackson, michael jackson, michael joe jackson, al jolson, asa yoelson, jolson, janis joplin, joplin, b. b. king, king, riley b king, harry lauder, lauder, sir harry maclennan lauder, huddie leadbetter, leadbelly, ledbetter, madonna, madonna louise ciccone, bob marley, marley, robert nesta marley, dean martin, dino paul crocetti, martin, ethel merman, merman, orbison, roy orbison, edith giovanna gassion, edith piaf, little sparrow, piaf, paul bustill robeson, paul robeson, robeson, lillian russell, russell, paul simon, simon, bessie smith, smith, kate smith, kathryn elizabeth smith, smith, barbra joan streisand, barbra streisand, streisand, sarah vaughan, vaughan, ethel waters, waters, hank williams, hiram king williams, hiram williams, williams, tammy wynette, tammy wynetter pugh, wynette
is a kind of instrumentalist, musician, player
Derived form noun vocalism2
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vocalist, n. [Cf. F. vocaliste.].
A singer, or vocal musician, as opposed to an instrumentalist . [1913 Webster]
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vocalist
Heldentenor, Meistersinger, alto, aria singer, baritenor, baritone, bass, basso, basso buffo, basso cantante, basso profundo, blues singer, canary, cantatrice, cantor, caroler, chanter, chantress, choir member, choirboy, chorister, chorus girl, coloratura soprano, comic bass, contralto, countertenor, crooner, deep bass, diva, dramatic soprano, heroic tenor, hymner, improvisator, lead singer, lieder singer, melodist, mezzo-soprano, nightingale, opera singer, prima donna, psalm singer, rock-and-roll singer, singer, singstress, soloist, songbird, songster, songstress, soprano, tenor, thrush, torch singer, vocalizer, voice, warbler, yodelerROGET THESAURUS
vocalist
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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