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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
cellist
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ He was bright and articulate, the son of a successful doctor and a concert cellist.
▪ Her two brothers are both cellists with well-known symphony orchestras.
▪ Only a great cellist can convey the lyricism of this music as Starker does.
▪ Paul Tortelier was a great cellist and it is good to hear his 1960 recordings of the six solo Bach Suites.
▪ San Diego Symphony cellist Ron Robboy.
▪ The cellist took up his bow, and drew across his instrument a few subdued notes of Bach.
▪ The appeal is supported by notable musicians like the cellist Julian Lloyd-Webber.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
cellist

1880, short for violoncellist on model of cello.

Wiktionary
cellist

n. one who plays the cello

WordNet
cellist

n. some who plays a violoncello

Usage examples of "cellist".

He wanders onwards and upwards in zig-zag fashion until he finds himself, at last, above the Festival tree-line and out of tambourine-rattling reach of the hordes of street harpists, flautists, violinists, cellists, banjo players, bongo drummers, mime artistes, puppeteers, body-paint workshops, Irish line dancers, hip-hop dancers and the familiar chorus of unicyclists, stilt-walkers, clowns and jugglers, all of them desperately performing to the hilt as if on the orders of some mad film director concocting an ambitious epic in which they will play the street people.

In any case, according to Louise, cellists generally have low sperm counts.

At the symphony, Louise watches the cellists and Louise watches Louise.

The cellists watch the conductor and every now and then they look past him, over at Louise.

The living room is full of cellos in black cases the cellists brought in, like sarcophaguses on little wheels.

Now the cellists sound as if they are underground, down in some underground lake, or in a cave.

When they take a break Louise feels tender, as if the cellists have been throwing things at her.

But the cellists pack up their cellos and they thank her and they drive away, leaving the dishes piled in the sink for Louise to wash.

The cellists on either side each take an arm and pull him back up again.

She and Anna leave before the other cellists can tell them how sorry they are, how much they will miss Louise.

The world was full of violinists and cellists looking for playing partners who could fill in the middle harmonies.

One of the Rasoumovsky quartets played in the background, rising eloquently above the drumbeats of the rain: as we soared high, Beethoven gave us a mystic noise, a second cellist unaccountably seeming to join the group, even an oboe at odd moments, a transcendental bassoon below the strings.

On the other was Cornfed, screaming animatedly at Thighs Growing, the cactacae cellist.

They are also confused about the nature of alternity and intrigued by nude female cellists.