HARPIST

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does harpist mean? 

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

1. someone who plays the harp

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• HARPIST (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Someone who plays the harp

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

harper; harpist

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

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

Derivation:

harp (a small rectangular free-reed instrument having a row of free reeds set back in air holes and played by blowing into the desired hole)

harp (a chordophone that has a triangular frame consisting of a sounding board and a pillar and a curved neck; the strings stretched between the neck and the soundbox are plucked with the fingers)