baritonist

B3A1R1I1T1O1N1I1S1T1

noun

A player of the baritone saxophone

Scrabble 12
Ask AI about this wordChatGPTClaudePerplexityGoogle AIGrok

Meanings

nounbaritonist (plural baritonists)

plural baritonists

  1. jazzA player of the baritone saxophone

    Featured most notably with Dizzy Gillespie's big band, Payne showed the influence of Harry Carney (the best-known baritonist of the swing era) in his meaty and authoritative sound[…].

    1994 June 3, Neil Tesser, “Eric Alexander, Cecil Payne & John Ore”, in Chicago Reader
  2. A player of the baritone horn (brass instrument)

Origin

From baritone + -ist.

Full word history & related roots →
Cite this entry
APA

baritonist. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/baritonist

MLA

“baritonist.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/baritonist. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “baritonist,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/baritonist.

Source: baritonist on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.