Synonyms:
musician, instrumentalist, player
Meaning: someone who plays a musical instrument (as a profession)
Synonyms:
musician
Meaning: artist who composes or conducts music as a profession
Usage examples
And she's more of a musician than you are a painter."
It would seldom benefit a musician to be appointed admiral or a housemaid to become a prima donna.
But by degrees the musician grew weary, and began to play odds and ends of old tunes, sacred and profane.
As the sun rises higher, one musician after another seeks the forest shade, and the morning concert ends at noon.
He went out, closing the door softly, and with an utter disregard for the corn field, made a bee line for the musician.
"Now that Keziah Cricket, who just came in here, is quite a musician, and her old father plays the violin beautifully;--by the way, we might engage him for our orchestra."
As the musician proceeded, the internal disorder yielded gradually to the external and finally passed away, entirely leaving him so far from prostrate that by 1 A. M. he was out of bed and actually girding himself with a shot-gun and an Indian club to go up-stairs for a physical encounter with the cornetist."
Well, he speedily became a thorough Copernican, and as he had a most singularly restless and inquisitive mind, full of appreciation of everything relating to number and magnitude--was a born speculator and thinker just as Mozart was a born musician, or Bidder a born calculator--he was agitated by questions such as these: Why are there exactly six planets?