A musician, especially a folk musician, who plays a harp.
弹竖琴者，竖琴师
traditional Irish harpers
Example sentencesExamples
Irish harpers used their fingernails on the wire strings of their harps, again probably near the soundboard.
Ó Cearbhalláin enjoyed the social status traditionally accorded to the harper in Gaelic society, but was on equally familiar terms with patrons of native and planter stock.
This is a comparatively extrovert third album from the talented and technically advanced young Scots harper and pianist, now sojourning in Barcelona and soaking up even more musical influences.
True to the tradition of real Irish music, we would be standing around a fire listening to a harper or singing in gaelic.
Music was a serious business in ancient Ireland, and professional harpers got all the top gigs.
Rhymes
carper, scarper, sharper
Definition of harper in US English:
harper
nounˈhɑrpərˈhärpər
A musician, especially a folk musician, who plays a harp.
弹竖琴者，竖琴师
traditional Irish harpers
Example sentencesExamples
Irish harpers used their fingernails on the wire strings of their harps, again probably near the soundboard.
Music was a serious business in ancient Ireland, and professional harpers got all the top gigs.
This is a comparatively extrovert third album from the talented and technically advanced young Scots harper and pianist, now sojourning in Barcelona and soaking up even more musical influences.
True to the tradition of real Irish music, we would be standing around a fire listening to a harper or singing in gaelic.
Ó Cearbhalláin enjoyed the social status traditionally accorded to the harper in Gaelic society, but was on equally familiar terms with patrons of native and planter stock.