mandolinist

American  

[man-duh-lin-ist] / ˌmæn dəˈlɪn ɪst /

noun

• mandolinists
  plural

1. a person who plays the mandolin, especially one who plays skillfully or professionally.

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Noun Inflected Forms

• mandolinists
  plural

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Next year the Ojai Music Festival will be in the hands of Teddy Abrams as the new artistic and executive director, and his first music director will be mandolinist Chris Thile.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 23, 2026

And leave it to an extroverted, stellar and spectacular mandolinist to have already lived up to that title by walking on stage.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 24, 2023

Less, however, has been said of how Mr. Osborne, whose syncopated, lyrical playing was inspired by the jazz-derived solos of old-time fiddlers, broke new ground as a mandolinist.

From New York Times ● Jun. 27, 2023

It’s a story not only of mandolinist and singer Duffey, but of dozens of other people who made Washington a hotbed of bluegrass music.

From Washington Post ● Jul. 30, 2019

He did not see himself in the character of a mandolinist.

From Don Orsino by F. Marion (Francis Marion) Crawford

I watched her disappear into the green-carpeted hotel-lounge, where an orchestra of mandolinists were playing an air from La Bohème.

From The Count's Chauffeur by William Le Queux

It has furnished a number of nimble mandolinists and exquisite dilettants for lazy moods.

From A Guest at the Ludlow and Other Stories by Edgar Wilson