CORNETIST

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does cornetist mean? 

• CORNETIST (noun)
  The noun CORNETIST has 1 sense:

1. a musician who plays the trumpet or cornet

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• CORNETIST (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A musician who plays the trumpet or cornet

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

cornetist; trumpeter

Hypernyms ("cornetist" is a kind of...):

instrumentalist; musician; player (someone who plays a musical instrument (as a profession))

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "cornetist"):

bugler (someone who plays a bugle)

Instance hyponyms:

Armstrong; Louis Armstrong; Satchmo (United States pioneering jazz trumpeter and bandleader (1900-1971))

Dizzy Gillespie; Gillespie; John Birks Gillespie (United States jazz trumpeter and exponent of bebop (1917-1993))

Derivation:

cornet (a brass musical instrument with a brilliant tone; has a narrow tube and a flared bell and is played by means of valves)