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Definition of Cornetist
1. Noun. A musician who plays the trumpet or cornet.
Specialized synonyms: Bugler
Generic synonyms: Instrumentalist, Musician, Player
Specialized synonyms: Armstrong, Louis Armstrong, Satchmo, Dizzy Gillespie, Gillespie, John Birks Gillespie
Derivative terms: Cornet, Trumpet
Definition of Cornetist
1. Noun. Someone who plays the cornet ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Cornetist
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cornetist
Literary usage of Cornetist
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Canadian Album: Men of Canada : Or, Success by Example, in Religion by William Cochrane, John Castell Hopkins, W. J. Hunter (1896)
"In 1870, he went to the United States, where he spent twelve years, being connected
with many of the leading orchestras, as cornetist, while residing in ..."
2. Men of Mark: Eminent, Progressive and Rising by William J. Simmons, Henry McNeal Turner (1887)
"Composer—Violinist and cornetist—Band Instructor. MR. WILLIAMS forced his way
upward in the face of all those difficulties, against which the Negro has to ..."
3. Pleasant Hours with Illustrious Men and Women, with Many Personal by Thomas W. Handford (1885)
"... more perfectly master of the violin, nor Rubinstein of the piano, than Levy
is of the cornet. The late JA Arbuckle, for many years the cornetist at Dr. ..."
4. The Wit and Humor of America by Marshall Pinckney Wilder (1911)
""While the music continued my friend was a well man ready to go out and fight
like a warrior, but when the cornetist stopped—the colic returned and he had ..."
5. The Print of My Remembrance by Augustus Thomas (1922)
"He says that the cornetist was William Disston, of Philadelphia, where his father
was a skilled maker of cornets. William Disston and Garvey were together ..."
6. The Ten Books of the Merrymakers edited by Marshall Pinckney Wilder (1908)
""While the music continued my friend was a well man ready to go out and fight
like a warrior, but when the cornetist stopped—the colic returned and he had ..."
7. Music (1899)
"At the age of fourteen he made his first public appearance as a cornetist, playing
at the Atlantic garden and making a decided "hit. ..."
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