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PAGANINI

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Overview

PAGANINI (noun)
  The noun PAGANINI has 1 sense:

1. Italian violinist and composer of music for the violin (1782-1840)play

  Familiarity information: PAGANINI used as a noun is very rare.


English dictionary: Word details


PAGANINI (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Italian violinist and composer of music for the violin (1782-1840)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Niccolo Paganini; Paganini

Instance hypernyms:

fiddler; violinist (a musician who plays the violin)


 Context examples 


This led him to Paganini, and we sat for an hour over a bottle of claret while he told me anecdote after anecdote of that extraordinary man.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)



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