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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
violinist
noun
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▪ A 12-disc set featuring the legendary violinist playing works by Beethoven, Brahms, Prokofiev and others.
▪ And everything I couldn't say, everything I couldn't play, this dark violinist could articulate perfectly.
▪ Featured soloists include 18-year-old violinist Tigran Vardanian and 16-year-old pianist Andrew von Oeyen.
▪ I could then sit and relax and listen to the other violinists.
▪ Kreisler excepted, no other violinist could so quickly transform a tender mood into a dramatically intense one.
▪ They've often collaborated before with other artists, including the playwright Tony Kushner and the violinist Itzhak Perlman.
▪ We had four violinists from the Philharmonic Orchestra.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Violinist

Violinist \Vi`o*lin"ist\, n. [Cf. F. violiniste, violoniste, It. violonista.] A player on the violin.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
violinist

1660s, from Italian violinista, from violino (see violin).

Wiktionary
violinist

n. A person who plays the violin

WordNet
violinist

n. a musician who plays the violin [syn: fiddler]

Usage examples of "violinist".

Pass over Aiken and the other silver-torc prisoners, the man Raimo and the woman Sukey, their infantile mental babblings as grating as the efforts of fledgling violinists importuning the ears of a cranky virtuoso.

Pate Birnie was a celebrated fiddler or violinist who resided in Kinghorn, Fifeshire.

When she came to the Calori she told me that she had had several lovers out of whom she had made a great deal, but at present she had no lover, unless it were the violinist Giardini, with whom she was in love in earnest.

Heer Pruyn makes a motion to the lead violinist of the small orchestra, and a vivid gigue is struck up.

The ball had not yet begun, and as soon as the violinist appeared, I stepped forward and danced with Sophie, to the delight of the select circle of spectators.

They were to deliver the blind violinist to Keelhaul de Rosa, right enough.

Silvio could have easily made his living as a violinist, though his livelihood was better and far more assured as a member of the luthier guild.

The man running the shop for Dylan had a visit from an Italian violinist who, in the course of chatting about having an instrument appraised, reported that the Angel violin was not a single violin but rather a series of violins made by a luthier in Cremona who had gone blind.

The spirit of a world-famed violinist played as though behind veils a romance by Rubinstein, to a piano accompaniment that sounded thin and cold, like a spinet.

Pope could eat little because he suffered from bad digestion and gaseous disturbances, Leo waved his white, bejeweled, plump hands while he accompanied Gabriel Marin of the remarkably beautiful voice, the master violinist Marone of Brescia, and Raffaelle Lippus, the blind balladier.

By the advice of the celebrated violinist, Ole Bull, Grieg was sent in 1858 to Leipsic for further instruction, where he became a pupil of Moscheles, Hauptmann, Reinecke, Richter and Wenzel.

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.

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

On this occasion the programme was entirely confined to his own compositions, with the exception of concertos by Viotti, the violinist, and Ferlendis, the oboist.

Meanwhile, from time to time I wrote polite letters to conductors and theaters, enclosed copies of testimonials from my teachers and humbly asked to be remembered for the next vacancy for a violinist.