Connoisseur

Definition: Connoisseur

Connoisseur

Noun

1. An expert able to appreciate a field; especially in the fine arts.

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Date "connoisseur" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1615. (references)

Satire

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Synonym: Connoisseur

Judgment

Censor, reviewer, critic; connoisseur; commentator; inspector, inspecting officer.

Proficient

Noun: proficient, expert, adept, dab; dabster, crackerjack; connoisseur; (scholar); master, master hand; prima donna, first fiddle, top gun, chef de cuisine, top sawyer; protagonist; past master; mahatma.

Scholar

Noun: scholar, connoisseur, savant, pundit, schoolman, professor, graduate, wrangler; academician, academist; master of arts, doctor, licentitate, gownsman; philosopher, master of math; scientist, clerk; sophist, sophister; linguist; glossolinguist, philologist; philologer; lexicographer, glossographer; grammarian; litterateur, literati, dilettanti, illuminati, cogniscenti; fellow, Hebraist, lexicologist, mullah, munshi, Sanskritish; sinologist, sinologue; Mezzofanti, admirable Crichton, Mecaenas.

Taste

Man of taste; connoisseur, judge, critic, conoscente, virtuoso, amateur, dilettante, Aristarchus, Corinthian, arbiter elegantiarum, stagirite, euphemist.

Crosswords: Connoisseur

The Connoisseur (1951)

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Books

• Nancy Silverton's Breads from the LA Brea Bakery: Recipes for the Connoisseur (reference)

• Origami for the Connoisseur (reference)

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Periodicals

• Jewelry Connoisseur (reference)

• New Music Connoisseur (reference)

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Consumer Goods

• Farberware Connoisseur 11-Piece Cookware Set (reference)

  (more baby examples; more wireless phone examples; more garden examples; more kitchen examples; more tool examples)

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Connoisseur Antiques, 1516 Wisconsin Ave., N.W. Planter lamp, skeleton view. Credit: Library of Congress.

The connoisseur, Norman Rockwell, The Saturday Evening Post, Jan. 13, 1962 / Norman Rockwell. Credit: Library of Congress.

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He was a connoisseur in painting.

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Expression using "connoisseur": connoisseur of wine. Additional references.

Albanian

specialist (nark, specialist), njohës (cognitive, expert, exploring, fancier, judge). (various references)

Arabic 

‏متذوق (natty), ‏واعي, ‏الخبير (expert, judge, past master). (various references)

Bulgarian 

любител (addict, amateur, dilettante, fancier, ham, hound, laic, lover, merchant, outsider), познавач (adept, cognoscente, expert, fancier, judge, proficient, sharp). (various references)

Czech

znalec (adept, cognoscente, expert, judge, master), fajnšmekr. (various references)

Farsi 

خبره (Critic, Expert). (various references)

Finnish

tuntija (expert, judge), taiteentuntija. (various references)

French

connaisseur. (various references)

German

kenner (appreciator, authority, classicist, cognoscente, connoisseurs, expert, fancier, fanciers, judge), Weinkenner (oenophile). (various references)

Greek 

γνώστησ (cognizant of, insider, judge, know how, knowledgeable), ειδήμονασ (judge), εμπειρογνώμων (expert), τεχνοκρίτησ (art critic, critic). (various references)

Hebrew 

מבין (a person of understanding, expert, savant), י�"ען (erudite, expert, savant, scholar), א� ין טעם (gourmet). (various references)

Hungarian

szakértõ (adept, adviser, expert, fancier, judge, past master), mûértõ (virtuoso). (various references)

Indonesian

ahli (ace, expert, highly competent, profession, skilled, specialist). (various references)

Italian

conoscitore (appreciator, classicist, Epicure), intenditore (expert, judge), esperto (ably, accomplished, adept, adroit, clever, experienced, expert, oldster, practiced, practised, professional, pundit, skiful, skilful, skilled, skillful, trained). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

通 (counter for letters), 鑑識家 (judge), 目利き (judgement). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

つう (counter for letters), か�"しきか (judge), めきき (judgement). (various references)

Manx

oayllee (expert, fancier, professional, pundit, savant, scientist). (various references)

Pig Latin

onnoisseurcay

Portuguese

conhecedor (adept, cognizant, expert, fancier, hakim, informed, judge, knowing, savvy, versed), perito (ace, adept, authority, dab, deft, experienced, expert, hakim, judge, land-surveyor, master, nailer, proficient, referee, sciential, scientific, skilled, specialist, surveyor, versed), apreciador (appraiser, fancier, fond). (various references)

Romanian

cunoscãtor (dab, expert, fancier, knowing), judecãtor (arbitrator, judge, justice, magistrate), expert (Ace, adept, authority, dab, dabster, Don, expert, proficient, specialist). (various references)

Russian 

знаток (adept, cognoscente, dab, dabster, expert, fancier, judge, scholar, watcher). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

znalac (specialist), poznavalac (expert, judge). (various references)

Spanish

conocedor (appreciator, classicist, exhibitionist, expert, judge), hombre todo visto, experto (able, accomplished, Ace, adept, adroit, clever, dexterous, experienced, expert, knowledgeable, nifty, nimble, practiced, practised, proficient, seasoned, sharp, skilful, skilled, skillful), entendido (agreed, expert, knowledgeable, understood). (various references)

Swedish

kännare (adept, fancier, judge, mastered). (various references)

Turkish

uzman (adept, authority, dab, dabster, Don, expert, fiend, judge, oracle, professional, proficient, regular, specialist, technician), usta (adept, adroit, artist, constructor, craftsman, dab, dabster, deft, dexterous, experienced, expert, facile, hand, ingenious, intelligent, journeyman, master, old hand, proficient, shark, skilful, skilled, skillful, slick, subtile, versed, whizz, wise, workman, Wright), erbap (cognoscente, dab, expert, past master, whizz), ehil (adept, cognoscente, competent). (various references)

Ukrainian

знавець (adept, cognoscenti, dabster, expert, proficient, sharp, whale). (various references)

Vietnamese 

người th� nh thạo (master), người s� nh sỏi (judge). (various references)

cognoscere. (various references)

conoisseor. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "connoisseur": connoisseurs, connoisseurship, connoisseurships. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Connoisseur" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Connaisseur, conneisseur, connioseur, connisseur, Connoiseur, connoisser, connoisseu, connoisseurial, connoisseus, connoissuer, connoisuer, connosseur, connossieur, conoisseur, conoissuer. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: censorious, nonserious.

-2 letters: coinsures, corniness, noncrises.

-3 letters: coinsure, conioses, corneous, cornuses, erosions, ironness, necrosis, neuronic, neurosis, nonissue, nonusers, resinous, reunions, rosinous, scunners, unicorns, unsonsie.

-4 letters: censors, cession, coenuri, coiners, conines, conners, cosines, courses, cousins, cronies, cruises, cunners, erosion, incross, incuses, insures, ionones, neurons, nonuser, nonuses, noosers, nuncios, onerous, orceins, orisons, oscines, recoins, reunion, ronions.

+1 letter: connoisseurs, uncensorious.

+2 letters: mispronounces, nondisclosure.

+3 letters: censoriousness, indecorousness, nondisclosures, oncornaviruses.

+4 letters: acrimoniousness, carnivorousness, ceremoniousness, commensurations, connoisseurship, deconstructions, incongruousness, neurosecretions, nonintercourses, reconstitutions, reconstructions.

+5 letters: censoriousnesses, connoisseurships, counterquestions, indecorousnesses, overconsumptions.