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lutist

American  
[loo-tist] / ˈlu tɪst /

noun

  1. a lute player; lutenist.

  2. a maker of lutes.


lutist British  
/ ˈluːtɪst /

noun

  1. another word for lutenist

  2. a person who makes lutes

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Etymology

Origin of lutist

First recorded in 1620–30; lute 1 + -ist

Example Sentences

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I was always the youngest person in the room and I would often end up being the donkey or the partially obscured lutist or a plant.

From New York Times Dec. 28, 2022

That was tricky, but nothing any skilled lutist couldn’t accomplish.

From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss

The flood of well-wishers slowed somewhat: a fellow lutist, the talented piper I’d seen on stage, a local merchant.

From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss

As a youth he became an excellent lutist, then thought of devoting himself to painting, but when he was seventeen studied medicine, and at the University of Pisa fell in love with mathematics.

From Youth: Its Education, Regimen, and Hygiene by Hall, G. Stanley

Mr Ellis considers that the natural scale of the chaunter of the bag-pipe corresponds most nearly with the Arab scale of Zalzal, a celebrated lutist who died c.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy" by Various

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