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Definition: Cognoscenti |
CognoscentiNoun1. An expert able to appreciate a field; especially in the fine arts. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "cognoscenti" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1839. (references) |
Synonym: CognoscentiSynonym: connoisseur (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Cognoscenti |
| Specialty definitions using "cognoscenti": berklix. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "cognoscenti": Cognoscente. (references) |
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Books | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "Cognoscenti" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 96.77% of the time. "Cognoscenti" is used about 31 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 (plural) | 96.77% | 30 | 63,341 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 3.23% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 31 | N/A |
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 |
cognoscenti | 13 |
cognoscenti cue | 5 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "cognoscenti"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Spanish | expertos. (various references) | |
Turkish | erbaplar, ehil olanlar. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | мистецтвознавець, знавець (adept, connoisseur, dabster, expert, proficient, sharp, whale). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Misspellings | |
"Cognoscenti" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: cognescenti, cogniscenti, cognocente, cognocenti, cognoscent, cognoscenta, cognoscentia, cognoscienti, cognosente, cognosenti, Ognissanti. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "cognoscenti" (pronounced kÄ'gnô'she"ntē) |
| 4 | -e" n t ē | aplenty, plenty, twenty. |
| 3 | -n t ē | ante, anti, appointee, Auntie, bounty, Canty, certainty, county, dainty, diamante, flinty, inti, jaunty, Monte, ninety, panty, pointy, scanty, seventy, Shanti, shanty, sovereignty, uncertainty, vigilante, warranty. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-c-e-g-i-n-n-o-o-s-t" | |
-1 letter: congestion. | |
-2 letters: oncogenic. | |
-3 letters: conceits, concents, connects, connotes, coonties, escoting, ionogens, scenting, sconcing, scooting, snooting. | |
-4 letters: censing, cogitos, cognise, coignes, conceit, concent, concise, congest, congoes, conines, connect, connote, consent, consign, coontie, cooties, costing, gentoos, gnostic, gooiest, goonies, intones, ionogen, ionones, isogone, isotone, nesting, nonegos, noosing, notices, notions, section, sooting, stoning, tensing, tension. | |
-5 letters: centos, cestoi. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-c-e-g-i-n-n-o-o-s-t" | |
+2 letters: concertgoings. | |
+3 letters: oncogenicities. | |
+5 letters: overconstructing. | |
| 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)43 6F 67 6E 6F 73 63 65 6E 74 69 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-.-. --- --. -. --- ... -.-. . -. - .. |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000011 01101111 01100111 01101110 01101111 01110011 01100011 01100101 01101110 01110100 01101001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)C o g n o s c e n t i |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0043 006F 0067 006E 006F 0073 0063 0065 006E 0074 0069 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)3781738081856971808675 |
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