cornetist

or cor·net·tist

[ kawr-net-ist ]

noun

1. a musician who plays the cornet.

cornetist

/ kɔːˈnɛtɪst /

noun

1. a person who plays the cornet

Word History and Origins

Origin of cornetist¹

An Americanism dating back to 1880–85; cornet + -ist

Example Sentences

Further Jazz lots include two scores by Irving Berlin - Songs from Top Hat and Songs from Follow the Fleet - inscribed to Ginger Rogers; and two inscribed piano scores by the influential cornetist Leon 'Bix' Beiderbecke.

From BBC

On “Gravity Without Airs,” the cornetist Kirk Knuffke leads the band, but he has also made himself the new guy of the bunch.

From New York Times

The cornetist first convened the quintet in 2016 as an extension of a trio that he had long maintained with Blade and Frisell.

From New York Times

At the Little Gem Saloon next door, where some of the first jazz gigs were played, a three-story-tall mural paying homage to the pioneering cornetist Buddy Bolden was also ruined.

From New York Times

The cornetist Ben LaMar Gay, a friend of Locks’s, joined, too.

From New York Times