violinist

From violin +‎ -ist.

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violinist (plural violinists)

1. A person who plays the violin.
   • 2009 January 20, Allan Kozinn, “Shafts of Sun in Winter From the Italian Baroque”, in The New York Times‎^[1], archived from the original on 26 November 2022:

     And the cello concerto was strikingly different on Sunday: at Weill, the ensemble included two violinists and one violist, cellist, bassist and lutenist, but on Sunday four more violinists, a second violist and a harpsichordist were added to give the ripieno sections of the fast movements a heftier punch than the smaller group delivered.

   • 2009 May 5, Steve Smith, “A Group That Doesn’t Sit, Adding Bounce to Haydn”, in The New York Times‎^[2], archived from the original on 7 July 2012:

     Founded in 1975 and led by the violinist Richard Tognetti since 1989, the orchestra looks youthful and hip onstage, its players clad in varying shades of black semiformality.

• violin

From Italian violinista (“violinist”).

• IPA^(key): /violinist/, [violiˈnisd̥]

violinist c (singular definite violinisten, plural indefinite violinister)

1. violinist

From violin +‎ -ist.

• IPA^(key): /vɪʊlɪˈnɪst/

violinist c

1. violinist (performer of the violin)

• cellist
• violast