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musician

nouncommon in dialogue

  • //mjuˈzɪʃən//

A composer, conductor, or performer of music; specifically, a person who sings and/or plays a musical instrument as a hobby, occupation, or profession.

noun

  1. 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.

    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.

    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.

Etymology

From Middle English musician, musicien, from Old French musicien (“musician”), equivalent to musike + -ien. By surface analysis, music + -ician.

Forms

plural
musicians
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).