Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun One who plays the flute; a flutist.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A flutist.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun A player on the flute; a flutist.

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  • noun One who plays the flute.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun someone who plays the flute

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Italian flautista, from flauto, flute, from Old Provençal flaüt; see flute.]

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From Old French flaute +‎ -ist.

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Examples

  • On that tour, Kerr, a flautist, is also believed to have acquired three pieces found in the same folder as the concerto.

    Vivaldi flute concerto discovered Severin Carrell 2010

  • Georgie, just back from sexually harassing the German PM and a flautist, is the only man on earth who could then say – look I’m not a racist I have a Black friend.

    Think Progress » Bush Uses NAACP Speech To Promote Estate Tax Repeal, Doesn’t Utter The Word ‘Poverty’ 2006

  • It wasn't all that odd to see a costumed musician walking the Faire, but a flautist was a rarity, and the morose melodies he chose were definitely out of keeping with the "merrye spirit of Olde England" that everyone else was projecting.

    Knight Of Ghosts And Shadows Lackey, Mercedes 1990

  • Saying this, he drew out the little mahogany case which held his flute, and coolly took the pieces and fitted them together, before crossing his legs upon the rough seat and beginning to blow, keeping up a series of the most doleful old Scotch and Irish laments, while the oxen plodded on and the police rode by the wagon side, listening and looking in vain for any sign tending to point out the fact that the flautist was a dishonest dealer in the coveted crystals which were so hard to get, but all the same keeping a keen look-out for danger in the shape of advancing Boers.

    A Dash from Diamond City George Manville Fenn 1870

  • Boehm was born in Munich, Bavaria (now Germany) and was a flautist in the Royal Bavarian Orchestra.

    Five People Born on April 9 | myFiveBest 2010

  • Mr. Speed, who will present Skirl's most recent artists—flautist Leah Paul and tenor saxophonist Travis Laplant—at Wednesday's showcase, contends there is no other option.

    Dancing in the Swirl of Skirl Steve Dollar 2011

  • We have musicians here who play for people who've just come out of surgery - a flautist goes up and plays for them and these patients, who are in tremendous pain, at the end of the playing, they are almost pain-free.

    Listening to music can prompt the brain to send positive signals throughout the body 2011

  • I started taking lessons on bass guitar at 59-years-old, and two years later I am able to hold my own with an experienced flautist and pianist, with whom I jam once a week.

    Coming Rather Late To the Musical Muse 2012

  • For his own phone, Mr. Oosting favors a tune performed by flautist Andrea Griminelli with the London Symphony Orchestra, because "it is elegant and when it rings, it doesn't seem to disturb others."

    Setting the Right Tone With Your Cellphone Cheryl Lu-Lien Tan 2011

  • Soaring Eagle: Frederick the Great was also a flautist and composer.

    Think Progress » Gordon Brown Calls On America To Repeal DADT, Calls UK LGBT Soldiers ‘The Pride Of Our Country’ 2010

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  • Also known as a flutist or floutist.

    April 27, 2007

  • One who has it and flauts it.

    April 1, 2008

  • So what exactly is it that you do to floors?

    April 21, 2008

  • So you think maybe you'll be a prostitute,

    Just to pay for your lessons, you're learning the flute,

    The ladies won't pay you very much for this,

    Looks like you'll never be a concert flautist.

    -- "Inner City Pressure", by Flight of the Conchords

    April 21, 2008

  • So you think maybe you'll be a strumpet,

    Just to pay for your lessons, you're learning the trumpet,

    It's true that the gents like their bit o' crumpet,

    But that don't make your idea any less dumb, pet.

    "Tart Tartare", by Foxydoggerel.

    April 21, 2008

  • HAHAHAHA! Top drawer, sionnach. HAHAHA!

    April 21, 2008

  • So you think maybe you'll be a doggerelist,

    Just to pass the time till you make your next list,

    The Wordies gather 'round and they start to talk

    "It's nice, pterodactyl, but you're no sionnach."

    April 21, 2008

  • My piano teacher, who was also a flute teacher, would say, "I am not a flautist. I do not play the flaut."

    April 30, 2010

  • I like your piano teacher.

    April 30, 2010

  • Milos, how did your piano teacher pronounce "pianist"?

    May 4, 2010

  • With the a as in smackdown, not as in awe-inspiring. The same way he pronounced piano, his two of which he always doughtily defended from torch-and-trebuchet-wielding mobs.

    May 4, 2010

  • ... I want to be in a trebuchet-wielding mob.

    May 4, 2010

  • C_B, you could be your own awe-inspiring, trebuchet-wielding mob. Just... please... whatever you do... don't set the pianos on fire.

    May 4, 2010

  • No problem. *tries to wield trebuchet*

    *fails*

    May 4, 2010

  • *hands broken trebuchet back to chained*

    Here. It's always toughest the first time you wield one.

    May 14, 2010