noun

• A person who plays the cello.

  ‘a cellist for a symphony orchestra’

  More example sentences

  • ‘In January 1786, Boccherini had become court composer to the future king of Prussia, a good cellist.’
  • ‘Now the irrepressible cellist has ventured out on the longest limb yet, embracing musical multiculturalism on an unprecedented scale.’
  • ‘It was Pete, a cellist who played in the original baroque style on a handmade replica of a Stradivarius.’
  • ‘At one point, the cellist is required to play a passage involving all four color effects simultaneously.’
  • ‘Born in 1896 in St. Petersburg, he was trained not only as a physicist but also as a cellist.’