musician
NounUS[myoo-zish-uhn]/mjuˈzɪʃən/3 syllables
Open English WordNet
Noun (2)musicians
- someone who plays a music as a professionSynonyms: instrumentalistplayerType of performer, performing artistKinds pianist, soloist, singer, jazz musician, violinist, flutist, trumpeter, piper, koto player, lutist +28 moreMember of musical organization, musical organisation
- artist who composes or conducts music as a professionType of artist, creative personKinds composer, conductor, virtuoso, arranger, choirmasterExamples Orff, Herbert, Ono
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Translations
Noun person who performs or writes music
- Spanish
- músico
- French
- musicien
- German
- Musiker
- Italian
- musicista
- Portuguese
- músico
- Turkish
- müzisyen
- Russian
- музыка́нт muzykánt
- Arabic
- مُوسِيقِيّ mūsīqiyy
- Chinese
- 音乐家 yīnyuèjiā
- Japanese
- 音楽家 ongakuka
34 more languages
- Dutch
- muzikant
- Polish
- muzyk
- Swedish
- musiker
- Greek
- μουσικός mousikós
- Korean
- 음악가 eumakga
- Indonesian
- pemusik
- Vietnamese
- nhạc sĩ
- Hungarian
- zenész
- Portuguese (PT)
- músico
- Chinese (Trad.)
- 音樂家 yīnyuèjiā
- Albanian
- muzikant
- Breton
- muziker
- Catalan
- músic
- Corsican
- musicante
- Czech
- hudebník
- Danish
- musiker
- Esperanto
- muzikisto
- Estonian
- muusik
- Finnish
- muusikko
- Georgian
- მუსიკოსი musiḳosi
- Hebrew
- מוּזִיקַאי muzikái
- Icelandic
- tónlistarmaður
- Kurdish
- muzîkjen
- Latvian
- mūziķis
- Lithuanian
- muzikas
- Norwegian
- musiker
- Romanian
- muzician
- Scottish Gaelic
- ceòladair
- Serbo-Croatian
- glazbenik
- Slovak
- hudobník
- Slovenian
- glasbenik
- Swahili
- mwanamuziki
- Welsh
- cerddor
- Yiddish
- מוזיקער muziker
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Webster's Dictionary (1913)
Mu·si′cian noun
Origin: F. musicien.
One skilled in the art or science of music; esp., a skilled singer, or performer on a musical instrument.
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54