orchestrant

English

Etymology

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Noun

orchestrant (plural orchestrants)

1. A musician who plays an instrument in an orchestra.
   • 1864 July 30, George Augustus Sala, “Quite Alone”, in All the Year Round, volume 11, page 583:

     At this conjuncture a gentleman in a blouse, affected perchance by the heat of the weather or by inordinate libations of cocoa, and stung to desperation by the prolonged absence of the Wild Woman and the monotonous iteration of the flageolet and kettle-drum, cried out, "Attrape, Mayeux!" and flung a roasted apple at the orchestrant.

   • 2005, Vardo Rumessen, Eduard Tubin and his time, page 75:

     Later on he complemented his studies at the Grand Opera in Paris, worked as an orchestrant at the Vanemuine from 1906-1910 and thereafter as a conductor at the Vanemuine from 1916-1940.

   • 2020, Anton Bespalov, Martin C. Michel, Thomas Steckler, Good Research Practice in Non-Clinical Pharmacology and Biomedicine, page 93:

     The situation started to change in the mid-1970s when blind auditions were introduced and the proportion of female orchestrants went up (Goldin and Rouse 2000).

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French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɔʁ.kɛs.tʁɑ̃/

Participle

orchestrant

1. present participle of orchestrer

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Romanian

Etymology

From orchestră +‎ -ant.

Noun

orchestrant m (plural orchestranți)

1. bandsman

Declension

	singular			plural
	indefinite	definite		indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	orchestrant	orchestrantul		orchestranți	orchestranții
genitive-dative	orchestrant	orchestrantului		orchestranți	orchestranților
vocative	orchestrantule			orchestranților