Meaning of the word musician

1. ^ «Musician». American Heritage Dictionary.
2. ^ Dictionary of Occupational Titles, Volume 1. U.S. Government Printing Office. 1949. p. 883.
3. ^ «Recording Artist (or Group)». Berklee College of Music. Archived from the original on 28 October 2020. Retrieved 19 February 2021.

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: a composer, conductor, or performer of music

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musician

1) музыка́нт; оркестра́нт

2) компози́тор

Англо-русский словарь. — М.: Советская энциклопедия.
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• Musician — Mu*si cian, n. [F. musicien.] One skilled in the art or science of music; esp., a skilled singer, or performer on a musical instrument. [1913 Webster] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

• musician — (n.) late 14c., one skilled in music, from O.Fr. musicien (14c.), or a native formation from MUSIC (Cf. music) + IAN (Cf. ian). Sense of professional musical performer first recorded mid 15c …   Etymology dictionary

• musician — [n] person who performs music artist, artiste, composer, conductor, diva, entertainer, instrumentalist, performer, player, session player, soloist, virtuoso, vocalist; concept 352 …   New thesaurus

• musician — ► NOUN ▪ a person who plays a musical instrument or is otherwise musically gifted. DERIVATIVES musicianly adjective musicianship noun …   English terms dictionary

• musician — [myo͞o zish′ən] n. [ME < MFr musicien] a person skilled in music; esp., a professional performer, composer, or conductor of music musicianly adj. musicianship n …   English World dictionary

• Musician — (Roget s Thesaurus) >Performance of Music. < N PARAG:Musician >N GRP: N 1 Sgm: N 1 musician musician artiste performer player minstrel Sgm: N 1 bard bard &c.(poet) 597 Sgm: N 1 accompanist accompanist accordionist …   English dictionary for students

• Musician — For the popular music magazine, see Musician (magazine). Instrumentalist redirects here. For followers of the philosophy, see instrumentalism. A musician is an artist who plays a musical instrument. It may or may not be the person s profession.… …   Wikipedia

• musician — noun ADJECTIVE ▪ accomplished, brilliant, excellent, fine, gifted, good, great, outstanding, talented, world class ▪ …   Collocations dictionary

• musician */*/ — UK [mjuˈzɪʃ(ə)n] / US noun [countable] Word forms musician : singular musician plural musicians someone who performs or writes music, especially as their job a jazz/rock/classical musician …   English dictionary

• musician — n. an accomplished; natural; strolling musician * * * [mjuː zɪʃ(ə)n] natural strolling musician an accomplished …   Combinatory dictionary

• musician — [[t]mjuːzɪ̱ʃ(ə)n[/t]] ♦♦♦ musicians N COUNT A musician is a person who plays a musical instrument as their job or hobby. He was a brilliant musician. …one of Britain s best known rock musicians …   English dictionary

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Noun	1.	musician — someone who plays a musical instrument (as a profession) accordionist — a musician who plays the accordion bandsman — a player in a band (especially a military band) bassist — a musician who play the bass viol bassoonist — a musician who plays the bassoon bell ringer — someone who plays musical handbells gambist — a musician who performs upon the viola da gamba hornist — a musician who plays a horn (especially a French horn) keyboardist — a musician who plays a keyboard instrument oboist — a musician who plays the oboe organist — a person who plays an organ percussionist — a musician who plays percussion instruments soloist — a musician who performs a solo violist — a musician who plays the viola
	2.	musician — artist who composes or conducts music as a profession music — an artistic form of auditory communication incorporating instrumental or vocal tones in a structured and continuous manner adapter, arranger, transcriber — a musician who adapts a composition for particular voices or instruments or for another style of performance artist, creative person — a person whose creative work shows sensitivity and imagination composer — someone who composes music as a profession virtuoso — a musician who is a consummate master of technique and artistry

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musician

noun

Quotations
«I am not a musician. I don’t go in too deep. If you have the music in your head, and you sing it with your body, then you’ll be alright» [Luciano Pavarotti]
«I’m a concert pianist — that’s a pretentious way of saying I’m unemployed» [Alan Jay Lerner An American in Paris]

Collins Thesaurus of the English Language – Complete and Unabridged 2nd Edition. 2002 © HarperCollins Publishers 1995, 2002

musician

noun

One who plays a musical instrument:

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She’s a very talented musician. 

Она очень талантливый музыкант.

To be a good musician, you have to practice a lot. 

Чтобы быть хорошим музыкантом, нужно много упражняться.

She is more of a poet than a musician. 

Она больше поэт, чем музыкант.

The musician piped a tune. 

Музыкант насвистел мелодию.

The musician spends years perfecting his craft. 

Музыкант годами совершенствует своё мастерство.

She has the makings of fine musician. 

У неё — задатки хорошего музыканта.

He let it drop that the famous musician was a close friend of his. 

Он обмолвился, что знаменитый музыкант — его близкий друг.

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…the violinist was a famous and exquisitely talented musician…  

A precocious musician, he was giving concerts when he was seven.  

…his singing voice is a little gravelly, but otherwise he’s a fine musician…  

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Musician

A musician is a person who is talented in making music or performing music creatively, or one who composes, conducts, or performs music. Musicians can specialize in any musical style, and some musicians play in a variety of different styles. Examples of a musician’s possible skills include performing, conducting, singing, composing, arranging, and the orchestration of music.

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As a musician, life is not over just because you are getting older, and so I find retirement a very frightening and dark thought.

I think one of the great moments of my life was when I could write musician on my passport.

The memory of things gone is important to a jazz musician.

I wanted to be a musician, either a guitarist or a drummer. I guess my dreams were in the entertainment industry, and I landed somewhere along there.

My dad was a jingle writer, and my mom was a jewelry designer and musician.

This is our culture, and I don’t care who the musician is, if he avoids black people, then he is scared of something. He doesn’t have confidence in himself or else he doesn’t believe in what he’s doing.

I sought my father in the world of the black musician, because it contained wisdom, experience, sadness and loneliness. I was not ever interested in the music of boys. From my youngest years, I was interested in the music of men.

I wanted to get my recording and become a musician again, work; with other people, do that kind of thing because I kind of got away from that for a while once we started happening, you know, selling records, sold out concerts.

All a musician can do is to get closer to the sources of nature, and so feel that he is in communion with the natural laws.

Every time I see a musician — it doesn’t matter what age — that inspires me, there’s always a secret little wish that maybe we’ll play together, because that’s how I learn and grow and so forth, you know. But hopefully there’s a lot more.

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