executant

Noun

Meaning

One who executes or performs; esp., a performer on a musical instrument.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

maestro hand player artist author producer interpreter exponent doer medium agent operator performer maker operative
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Antonyms

spectator special destroyer client amateur observer
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Hypernyms

performer performing artist

Examples

The private reader of listener can become an executant of felt meaning when he learns the poem or the musical passage by heart. To learn by heart is to afford the text or music an indwelling clarity and life-force. George Steiner

The advantage, the luxury, as well as the torment and responsibility of the novelist, is that there is no limit to what he may attempt as an executant - no limit to his possible experiments, efforts, discoveries, successes. Henry James

I prefer the large intention of an unskillful artist to the trivial intention of an accomplished one in other words, I am more interested in the high ideas of a feeble executant than in the high execution of a feeble thinker. Thomas Hardy

Close letter words and terms

executable code executable software executancy execute execute adeptly on execute artfully on