lutist

American  

[loo-tist] / ˈlu tɪst /

noun

1. a lute player; lutenist.

2. a maker of lutes.

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lutist British  

/ ˈluːtɪst /

noun

1. another word for lutenist

2. a person who makes lutes

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Etymology

Origin of lutist

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

Example Sentences

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

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

Mattheson, who wrote in the latter part of the eighteenth century, when the lute was still cultivated, said that a lutist of eighty years must have spent nearly sixty in tuning his instrument.

From A Popular History of the Art of Music From the Earliest Times Until the Present by Mathews, W. S. B. (William Smythe Babcock)