"percussionist" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: percussionists [plural]
Etymology: percussion + -ist Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|percussion|ist}} percussion + -ist Head templates: {{en-noun}} percussionist (plural percussionists)
  1. A trained musician who plays percussion instruments, as opposed to a drummer who lacks formal training. Categories (topical): Musicians, People Translations (musician): թմբկահար (tʻmbkahar) (Armenian), percussionista [feminine, masculine] (Catalan), percussionist [common-gender] (Danish), lyömäsoittaja (Finnish), perkussionisti (Finnish), percussionniste [feminine, masculine] (French), percusionista (Galician), Schlagzeuger [masculine] (German), Schlagzeugerin [feminine] (German), ütőhangszerművész (Hungarian), cnagcheoltóir [masculine] (Irish), slagverker [masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), perkusista [masculine] (Polish), bębniarz [colloquial, masculine] (Polish), уда́рник (udárnik) [masculine] (Russian), уда́рница (udárnica) [feminine] (Russian), udaraljkaš [masculine] (Serbo-Croatian), percusionista [feminine, masculine] (Spanish), perkussionist [common-gender] (Swedish), slagverkare [common-gender] (Swedish), уда́рник (udárnyk) [masculine] (Ukrainian)

Inflected forms

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