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bassoonists

bassoonists is the plural of bassoonist.

Meaning of bassoonist

Noun

bassoonist (plural bassoonists)

  1. A person who plays the bassoon, a musical instrument in the woodwind family.
    • Actually there was recently a talented young female bassoonist who gave up a promising career on that sturdy instrument, not to do something more feminine but to take up bullfighting. This is Patricia Hayes of San Angelo, Texas, who has had spectacular success in the arenas of Mexico and Portugal....1956 December 24, Cornelia Otis Skinner, “Women are misguided: They are still waging a shrill, ridiculous war over the dead issue of feminism”, in Life, volume 41, number 26, page 75
    Synonyms:
    bassooner

Questions about bassoonists

What is bassoonists the plural of?
Bassoonists is the plural of bassoonist.

Words near bassoonists in the dictionary

  1. bassooned
  2. bassooner
  3. bassooners
  4. bassooning
  5. bassoonist
  6. bassoonists
  7. bassoons
  8. Bassora
  9. Bassorah
  10. bassorin
  11. bassorine

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