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Definitions: Aficionado |
AficionadoNoun1. A fan of bull fighting. 2. A serious devotee of some particular music genre or musical performer. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Crosswords: Aficionado |
| Non-English Usage: "Aficionado" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Portuguese (enthusiastic, fan), Spanish (amateur, amateurish, bushleague, dabbler, dilettante, fan, fancier, fond, keen, lover, non-professional, partial). |
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Screenplays | I'm a real aficionado of death camp cuisine. (Ruthless People; writing credit: O. Henry; Dale Launer) | |
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| "Aficionado" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Aficionado" is used about 22 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 22 | 74,468 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
cigar aficionado | 270 |
aficionado | 79 |
aficionado dvd | 20 |
aficionado golf | 17 |
aficionado radio | 14 |
aficionado sexo | 12 |
aficionado bag golf | 10 |
aficionado equipment golf | 7 |
aficionado voyeur | 5 |
aficionado bag stand | 4 |
aficionado bag | 3 |
aficionado video | 3 |
aficionado picasso | 3 |
aficionado fotos | 2 |
aficionado cul | 2 |
wine aficionado | 2 |
aficionado club de de fotografia | 2 |
aficionado forum golf | 2 |
aficionado tequila | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "aficionado"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | admirues (admirer, fan, worshipper). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | ентусиаст (enthusiast, fan). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 迷. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | liebhaber (amateur, enthusiast, fancier, hobby, lover, paramour). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | οπαδός (adherent, devotee, fan, supporter). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | מעריץ (admirer, adorer, fan, reverent). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | valamilyen sport rajongója. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 열성가. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | aficionadoay болельщик (fan, rooter). (various references) poklonik (follower, palmer, pilgrim), ljubitelj (devotee, fan, fancier, lover). (various references) aficionada-m. (various references) tjurfäktningsentusiast, fantast (devotee, faddist, fan, fantast, fiend, highflier, highflyer, romancer), entusiast (buff, devotee, enthusiast, fan, fiend). (various references) meraklı (addict, addicted, amateur, buff, bug, curious, curious person, devotee, fancier, freak, given to, hipped, hipped on, hound, inquiring, inquisitive, inquisitorial, interested, keen, keen on, lover, nosey, nosy, prying, quidnunc, quizzical, rubberneck, snoop, Snoopy, splenetic), boğa güreşi meraklısı. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "aficionado": aficionados. (additional references) | |
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"Aficionado" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: afecionado, affecionado, afficionado, aficcionado, aficianado, aficinado, aficionando, aficonado, alicionado. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-c-d-f-i-i-n-o-o" | |
-3 letters: conidia. | |
-4 letters: anodic, conoid. | |
-5 letters: acini, canid, codon, condo, danio, facia, ficin, iodic, iodin, ionic, naiad, nicad, oidia. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-c-d-f-i-i-n-o-o" | |
+1 letter: afficionado, aficionados. | |
+2 letters: afficionados. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)41 66 69 63 69 6F 6E 61 64 6F |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000001 01100110 01101001 01100011 01101001 01101111 01101110 01100001 01100100 01101111 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)A f i c i o n a d o |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0041 0066 0069 0063 0069 006F 006E 0061 0064 006F |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)35727569758180677081 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Modern 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Usage Frequency 6. Expressions: Internet 7. Translations: Modern 8. Derivations | 9. Anagrams 10. Orthography 11. Bibliography |
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