musician
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English
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]- musitian (obsolete)
Etymology
[edit]From Middle English musician, musicien, from Old French musicien (“musician”), equivalent to music + -ian.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]musician (plural musicians)
- A composer, conductor, or performer of music; specifically, a person who sings and/or plays a musical instrument as a hobby, occupation, or profession.
- Jenny is a talented musician, playing the cello, saxophone, piano and guitar.
- 2024 June 27, Clay Risen, “Kinky Friedman, 79, Dies; Musician and Humorist Slew Sacred Cows”, in The New York Times[1]:
- He joined Little Jewford and other musicians — all with outlandish stage names, like Wichita Culpepper and Sky Cap Adams — to form Kinky Friedman and the Texas Jewboys in 1973.
- 2024 September 5, Maia Coleman, “The Bands and the Fans Were Fake. The $10 Million Was Real.”, in The New York Times[2]:
- Mr. Smith, a flesh-and-blood musician, produced A.I.-generated music and played it billions of times using bots he had programmed, according to the indictment.
Synonyms
[edit]- musicianer (slang)
Hyponyms
[edit]- See also Thesaurus:musician
- instrumentalist
- conductor
- musicianess
- recording artist
- singer
- singer-songwriter
- songwriter
- composer
- arranger
- vocalist
Derived terms
[edit]Derived terms
Translations
[edit]person who performs or writes music
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Middle English
[edit]Noun
[edit]musician
- Alternative form of musicien
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