Orpheus
noun
1 Orpheus
Greek mythology A great musician; when his wife Eurydice died he went to Hades to get her back but failed.
Dutch: Orpheus
Polish: Orfeusz
Roget 416:
musician,
artiste,
performer,
player,
minstrel;
bard
etc.
(poet)
597;
[specific types of musicians]
accompanist,
accordionist,
instrumentalist,
organist,
pianist,
violinist,
flautist;
harper,
fiddler,
fifer†,
trumpeter,
piper,
drummer;
catgut scraper.
band,
orchestral waits.
vocalist,
melodist;
singer,
warbler;
songster,
chaunter†,
chauntress†,
songstress;
cantatrice†.
choir,
quire,
chorister;
chorus,
chorus singer;
liedertafel [G.].
nightingale,
philomel†,
thrush;
siren;
bulbul,
mavis;
Pierides;
sacred nine;
Orpheus,
Apollo†,
the Muses Erato,
Euterpe,
Terpsichore;
tuneful nine,
tuneful quire.
composer
etc.
413.
performance,
execution,
touch,
expression,
solmization†.
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