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tympanist
[ tim-puh-nist ]
noun
- a person who plays the drums, especially the kettledrums, in an orchestra.
tympanist
/ ˈɪəɪ /
noun
- a person who plays a drum, now specifically the kettledrum
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Word History and Origins
Origin of tympanist1
1605–15; < Latin tympanista < Greek ٲ⳾貹Ծḗs, equivalent to tympan ( í ) to beat a drum + -ŧ -ist
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Example Sentences
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He began drumming in grade school and was a tympanist in local symphony orchestras.
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Surrounded by six of them, the steel pan tympanist plays the bass line.
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Chopin would have been a great tympanist if he had not wasted his life foolishly at the piano.
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Ah me! what a tympanist was lost to the world.
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