"violist" meaning in English

See violist in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

IPA: /ˈvaɪ.əl.ɪst/, /viˈəʊ.lɪst/ [UK], /viˈoʊ.lɪst/ [Canada, US] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-violist (viol).wav [UK], LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-violist (violist).wav [UK] Forms: violist [singular], violists [plural]
Etymology: viol + -ist viola + -ist Etymology templates: {{ety-suffix|viol|ist}} viol + -ist, {{ety-suffix|viola|ist}} viola + -ist Head templates: {{noun}} [POS TABLE]
  1. A violist is a person who plays the viola or the viol.
    Sense id: simple-violist-en-noun-sq0wqURJ
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Categories (other): Terms suffixed with -ist
{
  "categories": [
    {
      "kind": "other",
      "name": "Terms suffixed with -ist",
      "parents": [],
      "source": "w"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "viol",
        "2": "ist"
      },
      "expansion": "viol + -ist",
      "name": "ety-suffix"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "viola",
        "2": "ist"
      },
      "expansion": "viola + -ist",
      "name": "ety-suffix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "viol + -ist\nviola + -ist",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "violist",
      "tags": [
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "violists",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "expansion": "[POS TABLE]",
      "name": "noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "The violist stood up and played a solo."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A violist is a person who plays the viola or the viol."
      ],
      "id": "simple-violist-en-noun-sq0wqURJ",
      "raw_tags": [
        "countable"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈvaɪ.əl.ɪst/",
      "raw_tags": [
        "viol"
      ]
    },
    {
      "audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-violist (viol).wav",
      "raw_tags": [
        "Audio",
        "viol"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "UK"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/viˈəʊ.lɪst/",
      "raw_tags": [
        "viola"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "UK"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/viˈoʊ.lɪst/",
      "raw_tags": [
        "viola"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Canada",
        "US"
      ]
    },
    {
      "audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-violist (violist).wav",
      "raw_tags": [
        "viola",
        "Audio"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "UK"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "violist"
}
{
  "categories": [
    "Terms suffixed with -ist"
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "viol",
        "2": "ist"
      },
      "expansion": "viol + -ist",
      "name": "ety-suffix"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "viola",
        "2": "ist"
      },
      "expansion": "viola + -ist",
      "name": "ety-suffix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "viol + -ist\nviola + -ist",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "violist",
      "tags": [
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "violists",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "expansion": "[POS TABLE]",
      "name": "noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "Countable nouns"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "The violist stood up and played a solo."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A violist is a person who plays the viola or the viol."
      ],
      "raw_tags": [
        "countable"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈvaɪ.əl.ɪst/",
      "raw_tags": [
        "viol"
      ]
    },
    {
      "audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-violist (viol).wav",
      "raw_tags": [
        "Audio",
        "viol"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "UK"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/viˈəʊ.lɪst/",
      "raw_tags": [
        "viola"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "UK"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/viˈoʊ.lɪst/",
      "raw_tags": [
        "viola"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Canada",
        "US"
      ]
    },
    {
      "audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-violist (violist).wav",
      "raw_tags": [
        "viola",
        "Audio"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "UK"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "violist"
}

Download raw JSONL data for violist meaning in English (1.1kB)


This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-01-13 from the simplewiktionary dump dated 2025-01-01 using wiktextract (4ba5975 and 4ed51a5). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.