Word Meanings - MUSICIAN - Book Publishers vocabulary database

One skilled in the art or science of music; esp., a skilled singer, or performer on a musical instrument.

MINSTRELSY
1. The arts and occupation of minstrels; the singing and playing of a minstrel. 2. Musical instruments. Chaucer. 3. A collective body of minstrels, or musicians; also, a collective body of minstrels' songs. Chaucer. "The minstrelsy of heaven."
MINSTREL
In the Middle Ages, one of an order of men who subsisted by the arts of poetry and music, and sang verses to the accompaniment of a harp or other instrument; in modern times, a poet; a bard; a singer and harper; a musician. Chaucer. (more info)
SINGERESS
A songstress. Wyclif.
SINGER
One who, or that which, singes. Specifically: One employed to singe cloth. A machine for singeing cloth.
MUSICIAN
One skilled in the art or science of music; esp., a skilled singer, or performer on a musical instrument.
MINNESINGER
A love-singer; specifically, one of a class of German poets and musicians who flourished from about the middle of the twelfth to the middle of the fourteenth century. They were chiefly of noble birth, and made love and beauty the subjects of their
MASTERSINGER
One of a class of poets which flourished in Nuremberg and some other cities of Germany in the 15th and 16th centuries. They bound themselves to observe certain arbitrary laws of rhythm.
HISINGERITE
A soft black, iron ore, nearly earthy, a hydrous silicate of iron.
MEISTERSINGER
See MASTERSINGER