musician

noun
/mjuˈzɪʃən/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English musician, musicien, from Old French musicien (“musician”), equivalent to music + -ian.

  1. derived from musicien — “musician
  2. inherited from musician

Definitions

  1. A composer, conductor, or performer of music

    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.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at musician. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at musician. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

7 hops · closes at musician

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA