CONDUCTOR Synonyms: 49 Similar and Opposite Words

conductor

noun

Definition of conductor

as in director

a person who directs a musical ensemble The orchestra thanked their conductor for pulling together such a memorable performance.

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as in driver

a person who collects money or fares on a train or bus She asked the train's conductor when they would arrive at the next station.

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Recent Examples of conductor Sorcinelli’s winning drama Balcanica revolves around the encounter between a conductor and his son who flee Afghanistan after music is banned and an Italian doctor that will spark life-changing choices. — Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 11 Sep. 2026 The New York Philharmonic has kicked off its 2026-27 season with new conductor Gustavo Dudamel. — Sigal Ratner-Arias, Billboard, 11 Sep. 2026 Wachner had been once highly lauded as a musician who recorded over a dozen albums of his own and other composers' music, and had been twice-nominated for Grammy Awards as a conductor. — Anastasia Tsioulcas, NPR, 9 Sep. 2026 Rarely does anyone ask whether the conductor and the orchestra ever really learned the music the way it was intended to be played. — Larry Bomback, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2026 See All Example Sentences for conductor

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Noun

Tessa Coates created the series and serves as executive producer and showrunner along with Matt Miller and director Peyton Reed.

— Payton Turkeltaub, Variety, 20 Sep. 2026
Courtney Marx is director of mental health first aid at Alpert Jewish Family Service.

— Courtney Marx, Sun Sentinel, 20 Sep. 2026

Definition of director

Noun

The truck driver, who police identified only as a 57-year-old man, was heading westbound on East 14th Street and making a right turn onto First Avenue when his vehicle struck the teens.

— Desiree Anello, PEOPLE, 21 Sep. 2026
Gas prices are moving sharply in the wrong direction at a time of year when drivers typically get some relief.

— Steve Peoples, Los Angeles Times, 20 Sep. 2026

Definition of driver

Noun

Besides the several covers of ‘90s-era pop music classics by the likes of INXS and Tina Turner, composer Nathan Matthew David has contributed an original soundtrack incorporating traditional Filipino and Indigenous instruments.

— Frank Scheck, HollywoodReporter, 20 Sep. 2026
The new incentive is aimed at bringing back jobs for the industry’s editors, sound mixers, composers and visual effects artists.

— Cerys Davies, Los Angeles Times, 19 Sep. 2026

Definition of composer

Noun

For its part, Google, a major data center operator, has agreed to pay a premium for that new electricity as part of a new program Georgia Power submitted to state regulators late Monday afternoon.

— Kristi Swartz, AJC.com, 22 Sep. 2026
Most of those included a human safety operator behind the wheel in case the technology failed.

— Phil LeBeau,Meghan Reeder, CNBC, 22 Sep. 2026

Definition of operator

Noun

Ed Sheeran is supposed to take the stage any moment now, but there’s no sign of the musician.

— Maya Georgi, Rolling Stone, 20 Sep. 2026
While the musician’s pair were custom, similar styles can easily be shopped from brands like Paris Texas, Balenciaga and Betsey Johnson.

— Amina Ayoud, Footwear News, 20 Sep. 2026

Definition of musician

Noun

The architecture also gives engineers more control over where machine data gets processed.

— Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 18 Sep. 2026
Xu is an optical engineer whose work involves developing advanced imaging systems for observing cellular structure in motion.

— Jennifer Ouellette, ArsTechnica, 18 Sep. 2026

Definition of engineer

Noun

Instead of calling for calm and letting the justice system work, too many political leaders on the left and progressive social influencers either fanned the flames of unrest or failed to act until enormous damage was done.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 23 Sep. 2026
The leader of the FLDS is Warren Jeffs, who in 2011 was sentenced to life in prison in a case that received significant media attention.

— Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, 22 Sep. 2026

Definition of leader

Noun

George is listed as a Santa Rosa native in the school’s media guide and graduated from Montgomery High School in that city.

— Andrew J. Campa, Los Angeles Times, 24 Sep. 2026
Christian Grose, a political science professor at the University of Southern California, said the campaigns recognized that additional campaign funding went farther in reaching voters than the guide itself.

— Ben Paviour, Sacbee.com, 24 Sep. 2026

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