Other forms: singers
A singer is a person who performs with their voice. A jazz singer, lead singer, a fine singer.
The voice is classified by range — soprano, alto, tenor, bass — and a trained singer's instrument is a set of muscles that has to be warmed up and rested like any other. Lead singer names the front of a band. Note sing, song; and that the word is simply sing plus -er, and is as old as English.
1nounsingerA person who performs with their voice.
“The singer's voice filled the whole concert hall.”
singer is a performer.
Also accepted in games: vocalist
Sing plus -er, from Old English singan. Song, singe and sang come from the same root.
Middle English
synger
English, today
singer
Middle English synger, syngere, singere, singare, equivalent to sing + -er. Cognate with Scots singar, stq Sjunger, West Frisian sjonger, German Low German Singer. Compare also Old English sangere, Dutch zanger, German Low German Sänger, German Sänger (“singer”), Danish sanger, Swedish sångare, Icelandic söngvari.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA