crowder
/ˈkɹaʊdɚ/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.91 in modern English
13
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
One who plays on a crwth (Welsh string instrument); a fiddler.
Example Sentences
- "Certainly, I must confess my own barbarousness, I never heard the old song of Percy and Douglas that I found not my heart moved more than with a trumpet; and yet it is sung but by some blind crowder […]"
- "This comparison is all the more relevant as Uthr Ben represents himself in the Taliessin poem as bard, harper, piper, crowder —in a word, seven-score professionals all in one, an idea to be faintly traced in the Mabinogi of Branwen, when it makes Brân, on his expedition to Ireland, wade across with the musicians of his court on his shoulders"
- "When Johann of Hembach was scarcely more than a child, his witch mother took him to the nocturnal assembly of demons and, because he was so clever a crowder, ordered him to play his kit and to climb up a tree from which he could be heard better."
Etymology
From crowd + -er.
Origin
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈkɹaʊdɚ/
Usage
Subject
Wiktionary places this term in Music.