Bandleader
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Bandleader is a noun meaning A musician who conducts or leads a band of musicians.
Meaning
A musician who conducts or leads a band of musicians.
Example Sentences
By and large back then, bassists weren’t bandleaders; Mingus was an anomaly.
Before Brooklyn became the World Historical Hipster Hub, there were the Hepsters of Harlem. And well before there was an Urban Dictionary for every last nuance of non-standard English, the bandleader and amateur linguist Cab Calloway cataloged some of the unique speech of the 1930s and ’40s in his Hepster’s Dictionary.
Word Forms
- bandleaders
- band leader
Synonyms for bandleader
Depending on context, synonyms include conductor.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include conductor, leader, bandsman, bandmember, batonist, leadman.
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