PERCUSSIONIST

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

A musician who plays percussion instruments

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

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

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

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "percussionist"):

cymbalist (a performer on the cymbals)

drummer (someone who plays a drum)

xylophonist (someone who plays a xylophone)

Derivation:

percussion (the act of playing a percussion instrument)

percussion (the section of a band or orchestra that plays percussion instruments)