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pianist

UK/ˈpi.ənɪst/US/ˈpi.ənɪst/
nounB1+Common in everyday speech and writing · #6,465 of 15,258leans written

Other forms: pianists

A pianist is somebody who plays the keyboard instrument with hammers and strings. A concert pianist, a jazz pianist, train as a pianist.

It may be said with the stress on the first or the second syllable, and both are correct. A concert pianist practises for hours daily for life, and the repertoire memorised for one recital would fill a book.

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Definitions of pianist

  1. 1nounpianistSomebody who plays the keyboard instrument with hammers and strings.B1+

    “The pianist's fingers flew across the keys during the final piece.”

pianist is a musician.

Where it comes from

French pianiste comes from Italian pianista, from piano, itself short for pianoforte.

  1. Italian

    pianista

  2. French

    pianiste

  3. English, today

    pianist

From French pianiste, from Italian pianista. Analyzable as piano + -ist.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practise this word

pianist in the wild

  • A pianist is a musician who plays the piano.

    Pianist

  • Andrew Hill was an American jazz pianist and composer.

    Andrew Hill (pianist)

  • Active since the 1990s, he was the first Chinese pianist to be engaged by the Berlin Philharmonic, the Vienna Philharmonic and many of the top American orchestras.

    Lang Lang

  • John Josephus Hicks Jr. was an American jazz pianist, composer, and arranger.

    John Hicks (pianist)

  • Benny Green is an American hard bop jazz pianist who was a member of Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers.

    Benny Green (pianist)

From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. These sentences were written by other people about their own subjects; they are here to show the word at work, not as anybody’s opinion.

Related words

  • piano