MILES DEWEY DAVIS JR. Synonyms

• someone who composes music, usually as a profession

• someone who helps to open up a new line of research or technology or art

• empty rhetoric or insincere or exaggerated talk

• a genre of popular music that originated in New Orleans around 1900 and developed through increasingly complex styles

• a style of dance music popular in the 1920s; similar to New Orleans jazz but played by large bands

• play something in the style of jazz

• have sexual intercourse with

• a story about mythical or supernatural beings or events

• brief description accompanying an illustration

• someone who plays a music as a profession

• artist who composes or conducts music as a profession

• a musician who plays the trumpet or cornet

• (formal) a person who announces important news

• large gregarious crane-like bird of the forests of South America having glossy black plumage and a loud prolonged cry; easily domesticated

• large pure white wild swan of western North America having a sonorous cry

• English navigator who explored the Arctic while searching for the Northwest Passage (1550-1605)

• United States painter who developed an American version of cubism (1894-1964)

• United States jazz musician; noted for his trumpet style (1926-1991)

• American statesman; president of the Confederate States of America during the American Civil War (1808-1889)

• United States tennis player who donated the Davis Cup for international team tennis competition (1879-1945)

• United States film actress (1908-1989)

• United States jazz musician; noted for his trumpet style (1926-1991)