Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A singer.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A vocal musician; a singer, as opposed to an instrumental performer.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A singer, or vocal musician, as opposed to an
instrumentalist .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
singer ; a person who likes to sing.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a person who sings
Etymologies
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Examples
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I use the term vocalist deliberately because the moments where she uses her voice as an instrument to deliver punctuating melodic sounds, rather than delivering lyrics, are stunning.
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WARD: At once grandiose and gorgeous, this George Harrison song gets a great production from Spector, not least because the vocalist is his wife Veronica, of The Ronettes.
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WARD: At once grandiose and gorgeous, this George Harrison song gets a great production from Spector, not least because the vocalist is his wife Veronica, of The Ronettes.
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WARD: At once grandiose and gorgeous, this George Harrison song gets a great production from Spector, not least because the vocalist is his wife Veronica, of The Ronettes.
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WARD: At once grandiose and gorgeous, this George Harrison song gets a great production from Spector, not least because the vocalist is his wife Veronica, of The Ronettes.
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WARD: At once grandiose and gorgeous, this George Harrison song gets a great production from Spector, not least because the vocalist is his wife Veronica, of The Ronettes.
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In 1988, Page released his solo debut, Outrider, which featured former Led Zeppelin vocalist Robert Plant and drummer Jason Bonham, the son of late Zeppelin drummer John Bonham.
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The vocalist is pleasantly reminiscent of Billie Holiday.
"Glimmering and vast, out in the tranquil bay." maetrics 2008
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Basically, one guy wrote all the music and the instruments are played by the same crew, but the vocalist is different on each track.
John Joseph Adams » Scar Symmetry/Nuclear Blast All-Stars: "The Overshadowing" 2008
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Basically, one guy wrote all the music and the instruments are played by the same crew, but the vocalist is different on each track.
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