musician
//mjuˈzɪʃən//
Forms
- Plural
- musicians
Definitions
1.A composer, conductor, or performer of music; specifically, a person who sings and/or plays a musical instrument as a hobby, occupation, or profession.
- Jenny is a talented musician, playing the cello, saxophone, piano and guitar.
- Mr. Smith, a flesh-and-blood musician, produced A.I.-generated music and played it billions of times using bots he had programmed, according to the indictment.
- He joined Little Jewford and other musicians, all with outlandish stage names, like Wichita Culpepper and Sky Cap Adams, to form Kinky Friedman and the Texas Jewboys in 1973.
Frequency
Overall
Uncommon· #3096
By learning goal
- Everyday conversation
- Rare
- General reading & writing
- Uncommon
- Academic
- Rare
- Literature
- Rare
Related words
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English musician, musicien
From Old French musicien (“musician”), equivalent to music + -ian.