banjo
noun
a musical instrument of the guitar family, having a circular body covered in front with tightly stretched parchment and played with the fingers or a plectrum.
banjoist
-
a word derived from
banjo.
Example Sentences
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Clarkson previously released “Favorite Kind of High” and “I Hate Love,” which both feature on “Chemistry,” an album where she gets a little help from comedian and banjoist Steve Martin.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 18, 2023
“Billy knows stuff I don’t know, and I play with people with new information,” said Béla Fleck, the banjoist who has goaded his instrument into novel terrain for a quarter-century.
From New York Times ● Sep. 27, 2021
No, this banjoist wants to tweet, and he believes that his band was inhibiting that desire.
From Slate ● Jun. 28, 2021
Rhiannon Giddens, the banjoist and musicologist, has led an effort to educate the genre’s audience about traditional American folk music’s debt to African traditions.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 21, 2021
As if it were some sort of evil spell, my banjoist cabin-mate's interruption, as related above, had arrested them short at the point of that fateful sunset for many weeks together.
From Some Reminiscences by Joseph Conrad
