pianist

[ pee-an-ist, pyan-, pee-uh-nist ]

noun

1. a person who plays the piano, especially one who performs expertly or professionally.

pianist

/ ˈpɪənɪst /

noun

1. a person who plays the piano

Word History and Origins

Origin of pianist¹

1830–40; < French pianiste < Italian pianista. See piano ¹, -ist

Example Sentences

The narrator of Baldwin’s story watches from the audience as his brother, a pianist, plays onstage.

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During Soviet control of Hungary in 1956, Hideg and his wife, a pianist and singer, slipped past Russian soldiers one night, escaping first to Austria and later landing in New York.

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Set against the ominous beauty of the Swiss Alps, the film is a post-WWII-set art thriller about a quantum physics wunderkind and a mysterious jazz pianist.

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Shortly after, he fell in love with a young pianist and became obsessed with the Tristan myth, in whom love and death become existentially intertwined.

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They stretched and chatted until the teacher gave them their first warm-up combination — a series of stretches and pliés — and a live pianist began playing classical music from a corner of the room.

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