fiddlernoun [ C ]
uk/ˈfɪd.lər/us/ˈfɪd.lɚ/informala violin player
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Musicians
- accompanist
- arrange
- bandleader
- bandmaster
- bandsman
- drummer
- flautist
- flutist
- guitarist
- harpist
- one-hit wonder
- one-man band
- organ grinder
- organist
- pandit
- timpanist
- trombone
- trumpeter
- violinist
- violist
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Examples from literature
- I would sooner see that fiddler than any other fiddler in the world.
- It hurts me all the time to think I was lured under those guns by a silly old fiddler and a couple of silly sailors dancing to his silly tune.
- The fiddlers had to scrape so hard, that they gave out about three o'clock, and we had to give up the dancing, and go home, very much disappointed.
- The young baron will get off merely with a snubbing, I know that well enough, and all the blame will fall upon the fiddler.
- Under an old oak in a green place a fiddler and a piper were playing, and youths and maidens were dancing in the brown light.