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Saxophonist

Definition: Saxophonist

Saxophonist

Noun

1. A musician who plays the saxophone.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

 

Crosswords: Saxophonist

English words defined with "saxophonist": Bird ParkerCharles Christopher Parker, Charlie Parker, Coleman HawkinsHawkinsLester Willis YoungParker, Pres YoungYardbird Parker, young. (references)
Non-English Usage: "Saxophonist" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses.

German (saxophonist).

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Specialty Definition: Saxophonist

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

A saxophonist is a musician who plays the saxophone.

Famous saxophonists include:

Sax players in fiction:

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Saxophonist."

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Commercial Usage: Saxophonist

DomainTitle

Books

  • Jazz Exercises and Etudes for the Alto Saxophonist (reference)

  • Solo Pieces for the Advanced Saxophonist (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Theater & Movies

  • Lee Konitz: Portrait of an Artist as Saxophonist (reference)

    (more DVD examples; more video examples)

  

High Tech

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Image Slideshow: Saxophonist

Computer Images:
Saxophonist

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Usage Frequency: Saxophonist

"Saxophonist" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Saxophonist" is used about 41 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)100%4153,521

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expressions: Saxophonist

Hypenated Usage

Ending with "saxophonist": alto-saxophonist, ex-saxophonist.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Saxophonist

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

saxophonist

20

getz saxophonist

19

jazz saxophonist

3

james luecke saxophonist

2

jones laura saxophonist

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Saxophonist

Language Translations for "saxophonist"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Arabic 

  

‏عارف الساكسفون. (various references)

   

Chinese 

  

萨克斯管吹奏者. (various references)

   

French

  

saxophoniste. (various references)

   

German

  

Saxophonist. (various references)

   

Greek 

  

σαξοφωνίστασ, παίκτησ σαξοφώνου. (various references)

   

Italian

  

sassofonista. (various references)

   

Manx

  

sacsafonee. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

axophonistsay

   

Russian 

  

саксофонист. (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

saksofonista. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

saxófono (sax, saxophone). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

saxofonist. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

saksofoncu. (various references)

   

Ukranian 

  

саксофоніст. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Saxophonist

Derivations

Words beginning with "saxophonist": saxophonists. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Saxophonist" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: saxophonic. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Saxophonist"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "saxophonist" (pronounced sa"ksufō'ni'st)
4-n i' s tconstructionist, expansionist, humanist, percussionist, perfectionist, religionist, revisionist, satanist, trombonist.
3-i' s tabsurdist, astrophysicist, backlist, baptist, bassist, blacklist, careerist, centrist, chartist, checklist, cheesiest, chemist, clearest, climatologist, collectivist, conformist, consumerist, corporatist, costliest, counterterrorist, cubist, cutest, czarist, defeatist, dramatist, dualist, egotist, essayist, evangelist, experimentalist, fatalist, flavorist, flutist, futurist, gradualist, harpist, horticulturist, jurist, lyrist, minimalist, monarchist, monetarist, moralist, nativist, nicest, nudist, optimist, optometrist, parodist, pharmacologist, physicist, pinkest, podiatrist, practiced, pragmatist, publicist, purist, realist, recidivist, reformist, revivalist, royalist, sensationalist, sexist, soloist, statist, stylist, suffragist, terrorist, typist, vaguest.

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Anagrams: Saxophonist

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-h-i-n-o-o-p-s-s-t-x"

-3 letters: astonish, snapshot.

-4 letters: hatpins, options, passion, photons, pissant, pistons, poisons, postins, potions, ptisans, shantis, siphons, sonship, sophist, spintos, stonish.

-5 letters: aspish, axions, hatpin, hoists, hostas, opsins, option, paints, pantos, pastis, pathos, patins, patios, patois, phasis, phonos, photon, photos, pianos, pinots, pintas, pintos, piston, pitons, points, poisha, poison, posits, postin, potash, potion, ptisan, ptosis, saints, santos, satins, shanti, shnaps, shoats, shoots, siphon, sixths, snaths, snoops, snoots, sooths, spahis, spaits, sphinx, spinto, spoons, stains, staphs, stoops, taxons, tonish, toxins.

 Words containing the letters "a-h-i-n-o-o-p-s-s-t-x"
 

+1 letter: saxophonists.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Saxophonist


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

53 61 78 6F 70 68 6F 6E 69 73 74

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010011 01100001 01111000 01101111 01110000 01101000 01101111 01101110 01101001 01110011 01110100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#83 &#97 &#120 &#111 &#112 &#104 &#111 &#110 &#105 &#115 &#116

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0053 0061 0078 006F 0070 0068 006F 006E 0069 0073 0074

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

5367908182748180758586

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Images: Slideshow
5. Usage Frequency
6. Expressions
7. Expressions: Internet
8. Translations: Modern
9. Derivations
10. Rhymes
11. Anagrams
12. Orthography
13. Bibliography


  

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