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FIDDLER

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

An unskilled person who tries to fix or mend

Synonyms:

fiddler; tinkerer

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("fiddler" is a kind of...):

unskilled person (a person who lacks technical training)

Derivation:

fiddle (try to fix or mend)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Someone who manipulates in a nervous or unconscious manner

Synonyms:

fiddler; twiddler

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("fiddler" is a kind of...):

manipulator (a person who handles things manually)

Derivation:

fiddle (manipulate manually or in one's mind or imagination)

Sense 3

Meaning:

A musician who plays the violin

Synonyms:

fiddler; violinist

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("fiddler" is a kind of...):

instrumentalist; musician; player (someone who plays a musical instrument (as a profession))

Instance hyponyms:

Arcangelo Corelli; Corelli (Italian violinist and composer of violin concertos (1653-1713))

Enesco; George Enescu; Georges Enesco (Romanian violinist and composer (1881-1955))

Grappelli; Stephane Grappelli (French jazz violinist (1908-1997))

Joachim; Joseph Joachim (Hungarian violinist and composer (1831-1907))

Fritz Kreisler; Kreisler (United States violinist (born in Austria) (1875-1962))

Menuhin; Sir Yehudi Menuhin; Yehudi Menuhin (British violinist (born in the United States) who began his career as a child prodigy in the 1920s (1916-1999))

Niccolo Paganini; Paganini (Italian violinist and composer of music for the violin (1782-1840))

Isaac Stern; Stern (United States concert violinist (born in Russia in 1920))

Antonio Lucio Vivaldi; Antonio Vivaldi; Vivaldi (Italian baroque composer and violinist (1675-1741))

Efrem Zimbalist; Zimbalist (United States violinist (born in Russia) (1889-1985))

Pinchas Zukerman; Zukerman (Israeli violinist (born in 1948))

Derivation:

fiddle (play the violin or fiddle)

Credits

 Context examples: 

Then the fiddler went his way, and took her with him, and they soon came to a great wood.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

So words and tears were of no avail; the parson was sent for, and she was married to the fiddler.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

When they had eaten a very scanty meal they went to bed; but the fiddler called her up very early in the morning to clean the house.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

Then the maiden changed herself into a beautiful flower which stood in the midst of a briar hedge, and her sweetheart Roland into a fiddler.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

Two days after there came by a travelling fiddler, who began to play under the window and beg alms; and when the king heard him, he said, “Let him come in.”

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)