musician

English

Alternative forms

musitian (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English musician, musicien, from Old French musicien (“musician”). Equivalent to music +‎ -ian.

Pronunciation

Hyphenation: mu‧si‧cian
IPA^(key): /mjuˈzɪʃən/
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Rhymes: -ɪʃən

Noun

A musician playing a guitar

musician (plural musicians)

A composer, conductor, or a performer of music; more specifically, it's a person who sings and/or plays a musical instrument as a hobby, an occupation, or a profession.
Jenny is a talented musician, playing the cello, saxophone, piano and guitar.

Synonyms

musicianer (slang)

Hyponyms

See also Thesaurus:musician
instrumentalist
conductor
musicianess
recording artist
singer
singer-songwriter
songwriter
composer
arranger
vocalist

Derived terms

musicianer
musicianess
musicianship
muso
pop musician
session musician
street musician

Translations

person who performs or writes music

Afrikaans: musikant (af), musikus, musici (af) pl
Albanian: muzikant (sq) m
Arabic: مُوسِيقِيّ‎ (ar) m (mūsīqiyy)
Aragonese: please add this translation if you can
Armenian: երաժիշտ (hy) (eražišt)
Asturian: músicu m
Azerbaijani: musiqiçi
Basque: musikari
Belarusian: музы́ка m (muzýka), музыка́нт m (muzykánt)
Bengali: বাদক (bn) (badôkô)
Breton: soner (br) m, sonour m, muzisian m, muziker m
Bulgarian: музика́нт m (muzikánt)
Burmese: ဂီတသမား (my) (gita.sa.ma:)
Catalan: músic (ca) m
Chechen: музыкант (muzykant)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 音樂家／音乐家 (zh) (yīnyuèjiā)
Chukchi: эʼйӈэнэӈэткульын (ėʼjṇėnėṇėtkulʹyn)
Cornish: ilewydh m, ilewydhes f
Corsican: musicante m or f
Czech: hudebník (cs) m, muzikant (cs) m
Danish: musiker (da) c
Dutch: muzikant (nl) m, muzikante (nl) f, musicus (nl) m or f
Emilian: please add this translation if you can
Esperanto: muzikisto (eo)
Estonian: muusik (et)
Extremaduran: please add this translation if you can
Finnish: muusikko (fi)
Franco-Provençal: please add this translation if you can
French: musicien (fr) m, musicienne (fr) f
Friulian: please add this translation if you can
Galician: músico (gl) m, música (gl) f
Gallo: please add this translation if you can
Georgian: მუსიკოსი (musiḳosi)
German: Musiker (de) m, (amateur also) Musikant (de) m, (rare) Tonkünstler (de) m, (humorous) Musikus (de) m
Greek: μουσικός (el) m or f (mousikós)
Ancient: μουσικός m (mousikós)
Greenlandic: nipilersortartoq
Hebrew: מוּזִיקַאי‎ (he) (muzikai)
Hindi: संगीतकार (hi) m (saṅgītkār)
Hungarian: zenész (hu), muzsikus (hu)
Icelandic: tónlistarmaður (is) m
Indonesian: musikus (id), pemusik (id)
Irish: ceoltóir m
Istriot: please add this translation if you can
Italian: musicista (it) m or f, musico (it) m
Japanese: 音楽家 (ja) (おんがくか, ongakuka)
Javanese: please add this translation if you can
Kalmyk: көгҗмч (kögjmch)
Kazakh: музыкант (kk) (muzykant)
Khmer: អ្នកភ្លេង (nĕək phleing), វាទកៈ (km) (viətĕəʼkaʼ) (female)
Korean: 음악가(音樂家) (ko) (eumakga)
Kyrgyz: музыкант (ky) (muzıkant)
Ladin: please add this translation if you can
Lao: ນັກດົນຕີ (lo) (nak don tī)
Latin: mūsicus m, mūsica f
Latvian: mūziķis m
Ligurian: please add this translation if you can
Lithuanian: muzikantas m, muzikas m
Lombard: please add this translation if you can
Luxembourgish: Museker m, Musekerin f
Macedonian: му́зичар m (múzičar)
Malay: pemuzik
Maori: kaiwhakatangi
Middle English: musicien, musiker, synger
Mon: please add this translation if you can
Mongolian: хөгжимчин (mn) (xögžimčin)
Neapolitan: please add this translation if you can
Norman: musicien m
Norwegian:
Bokmål: musiker m
Nynorsk: musikar m
Old English: dreāmere m
Pali: vādaka m
Persian: موزیسین‎ (fa) (muzisian), موزیکان‎ (muzikân) (obsolete), موسیقیدان‎ (fa) (musiqidân)
Piedmontese: musicista m
Polish: muzyk (pl) m pers, muzyczka (pl) f
Portuguese: músico (pt) m
Romagnol: mușicânt m
Romanian: muzician (ro) m, muziciană (ro) f
Russian: музыка́нт (ru) m (muzykánt), музыка́нтка f (muzykántka)
Sanskrit: वादक (sa) m (vādaka)
Scots: muisicker, muisician
Scottish Gaelic: ceòladair m, neach-ciùil m
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: музичар m
Roman: muzičar (sh) m, glazbenik (sh) m (Croatia)
Slovak: hudobník m, muzikant m
Slovene: glasbenik (sl) m, glasbenica f
Sotho: sebini
Spanish: músico (es) m
Swahili: mwimbaji (sw), mwanamuziki (sw)
Swedish: musikant (sv) c, musiker (sv) c
Tagalog: musiko
Tajik: мусиқачӣ (musiqačī)
Thai: นักดนตรี (nák-don-dtrii)
Turkish: müzisyen (tr)
Turkmen: sazandar, sazanda
Ukrainian: музика́нт (uk) m (muzykánt)
Urdu: موسیقار‎ m (musiqār)
Uzbek: musiqachi (uz), muzikant (uz)
Vietnamese: nhạc sĩ (vi)
Volapük: musigan (vo)
Welsh: cerddwr (cy), cerddwyr (cy)
West Frisian: muzikus m or f, muzikant m, muzikante f, muzykman m
Yiddish: מוזיקער‎ m (muziker)

Middle English

Noun

musician

Alternative form of musicien