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musician

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Word definitions for musician in dictionaries

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Musician \Mu*si"cian\, n. [F. musicien.] One skilled in the art or science of music; esp., a skilled singer, or performer on a musical instrument.

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. A composer, conductor, or performer of music; specifically, a person who sings and/or plays a musical instrument as a hobby, an occupation, or a profession.

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
A musician (or instrumentalist ) is a person who plays a musical instrument or is musically talented. Anyone who composes, conducts, or performs music may also be referred to as a musician. Musicians can specialize in any musical style, and some musicians ...

Usage examples of musician.

By the time Miss Tyler had returned with a tray, Lady Millicent had re-entered the parlor, and the musicians had switched to an allemande, from a suite by Herr Bach, whose sonorities included the sound of a few string instruments.

The horse knows that, and so does the artiste, and so does the band of musicians, if there is a band.

One of the musicians, a red-dad fiddler with instrument case strapped to his back like Kevin, handed the bardling a switch broken from a bush.

The brasses had disgusted him because the musicians were, he thought, always shaking spit out of them.

The musicians were doing a blasting oom-pah-pah of brassy Bavarian folk music, and the girls, although they were cavorting on soft sawdust, contributed to the noise with the repeated thigh-slapping that the dance demanded.

Two years later the Marquis, wishing to engage a master of singing for his son, sent to one Nicolo, the German, at Ferrara, and this musician recommended Giovanni Brith as highly qualified to sing in the latest fashion the best songs of the Venetian style.

How dare they, he thought, fight their trivial buttles over which musicians would play at whose ball when four miles away men and women were struggling for their lives against an invisible slayer and the air dripped with the stink of corpses smoke, and death?

He also reports the case of a distinguished musician who, by reason of hypospadias, had never impregnated his wife, and had resorted to injections of semen with a favorable result.

Murk gestured the mariachi into the storeroom, indicating that he could bring in the other musicians.

He was pointing out the first marimba player that they had seen, and Margo had time to study the musician while the car paused for others to peer at the university.

I looked past Messire to see Allin giggling with the musician, who handled his mettlesome grey horse with considerable skill.

Surely, as we read, those that have already seen all or most things, those who at their first birth have entered into the life-germ from which is to spring a metaphysician, a musician or a born lover, the metaphysician taking to the path by instinct, the musician and the nature peculiarly susceptible to love needing outside guidance.

Behind the metics came the musicians, the old men with olive branches, the armed warriors in chariots, the cavalry, and finally the mass population of Athens, carrying gold and silver and ivory gifts for Athena.

As the boat now touched the bank, Madame de Montaigne accosted the musicians, thanked them with a sweet and unaffected earnestness for the compliment so delicately offered, and invited them ashore.

Even if he took the posters off it, even the canvas cover, people would see him for a traveller, a seller, quack, musician or a mountebank, but if he left it and just took the nag, he gave up his home, his bed, and all his trade trickery.