Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun One who plays the flute.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A performer on the flute; a flute-player.

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

  • noun A performer on the flute; a flautist.
  • noun To move with quick vibrations or undulations
  • noun To move about briskly, irregularly, or with great bustle and show, without much result.
  • noun To be in agitation; to move irregularly; to flucttuate; to be uncertainty.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun One who plays the flute.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun someone who plays the flute

Etymologies

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flute +‎ -ist

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  • Also known as a flautist or floutist.

    April 27, 2007

  • And also fluter, like Samuel Pepys wrote in his diary: "I saw...a picture of a fluter playing on his flute." (!)

    September 29, 2007

  • If a player of the lute is a lutenist and a maker of lutes a luthier, why oh why can't us flute players be flutenists and the makers of our instruments fluthiers?

    April 1, 2008