composer
NounUS[kuhm-poh-zer]/kəmˈpoʊzɚ/3 syllables
Open English WordNet
Noun (1)composers
- someone who composes music, usually as a professionType of musicianKinds songwriter, psalmist, contrapuntist, symphonistExamples Stravinsky, Gioachino Rossini, Handy, Franck, Bruckner, Porter, Delibes, Falla, Mozart, Ambrose +122 more
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Translations
Noun one who composes music
- Spanish
- compositor
- French
- compositeur
- German
- Komponist
- Italian
- compositore
- Portuguese
- compositor
- Turkish
- besteci
- Russian
- компози́тор kompozítor
- Arabic
- مُلَحِّن mulaḥḥin
- Chinese
- 作曲家 zuòqǔjiā
- Japanese
- 作曲家 sakkyokuka
23 more languages
- Dutch
- componist
- Polish
- kompozytor
- Swedish
- kompositör
- Greek
- συνθέτης synthétis
- Korean
- 작곡가 jakgokga
- Indonesian
- komponis
- Hungarian
- zeneszerző
- Portuguese (PT)
- compositor
- Chinese (Trad.)
- 作曲家 zuòqǔjiā
- Catalan
- compositor
- Czech
- skladatel
- Danish
- komponist
- Esperanto
- komponisto
- Estonian
- helilooja
- Finnish
- säveltäjä
- Georgian
- კომპოზიტორი ḳomṗoziṭori
- Hebrew
- מַלְחִין malkhin
- Lithuanian
- kompozitorius
- Norwegian
- komponist
- Romanian
- compozitor
- Serbo-Croatian
- skladatelj
- Swahili
- mtunzi
- Yiddish
- קאָמפּאָזיטאָר kompozitor
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Webster's Dictionary (1913)
Com·pos′er noun
1. One who composes; an author. Specifically, an author of a piece of music.
If the thoughts of such authors have nothing in them, they at least... show an honest industry and a good intention in the composer.— Joseph Addison
His [Mozart's] most brilliant and solid glory is founded upon his talents as a composer.— Moore (Encyc. of Mus.).
2. One who, or that which, quiets or calms; one who adjusts a difference.
Sweet composers of the pensive soul.— John Gay
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54