Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A performer on the violoncello. Often abbreviated to cellist, 'cellist.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun A player on the violoncello.

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  • noun a person who plays the violoncello

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  • noun someone who plays a violoncello

Etymologies

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violoncello +‎ -ist

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Examples

  • The violoncellist played, a singer sang, and invariably at half-past eleven the door leading to the dining-room opened and Dymov, smiling, said:

    The Wife 2004

  • Then a violoncellist, whose instrument used to sob, and who openly declared that of all the ladies of his acquaintance the only one who could accompany him was Olga

    The Wife 2004

  • An actor from the Dramatic Theatre recited, a singer sang, artists sketched in the albums of which Olga Ivanovna had a great number, the violoncellist played, and the hostess herself sketched, carved, sang, and played accompaniments.

    The Wife 2004

  • He went with his friend, the violoncellist, Antonio Nardini, to Prague, where they both accepted a position in the orchestra of Count Kinsky.

    Among the Great Masters of Music Scenes in the Lives of Famous Musicians Walter Rowlands

  • Then a violoncellist, whose instrument used to sob, and who openly declared that of all the ladies of his acquaintance the only one who could accompany him was Olga Ivanovna; then there was a literary man, young but already well known, who had written stories, novels, and plays.

    The Grasshopper 1918

  • An actor from the Dramatic Theatre recited, a singer sang, artists sketched in the albums of which Olga Ivanovna had a great number, the violoncellist played, and the hostess herself sketched, carved, sang, and played accompaniments.

    The Grasshopper 1918

  • The violoncellist played, a singer sang, and invariably at half-past eleven the door leading to the dining-room opened and Dymov, smiling, said:

    The Grasshopper 1918

  • By the way, that young fellow over there who said that is a violoncellist.

    The Best Short Stories of 1915 And the Yearbook of the American Short Story Various 1915

  • Mr. Werner, 'Court-violoncellist to the King of Paraguay.'

    Harrison, Mrs. Burton, 1843-1920. Recollections Grave and Gay 1911

  • Bernhard Romberg was a distinguished violoncellist.

    Beethoven A Character Study Fischer, George A 1905

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