Virtuoso

Definitions: Virtuoso

Virtuoso

Adjective

1. Having or revealing supreme mastery or skill; "a consummate artist"; "consummate skill"; "a masterful speaker"; "masterful technique"; "a masterly performance of the sonata"; "a virtuoso performance".

Noun

1. Someone who is dazzlingly skilled in any field.

2. A musician who is a consummate master of technique and artistry.

Date "virtuoso" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1637. (references)

Etymology: Virtuoso \Vir`tu*o"so\, noun; plural Virtuosos; Italian Virtuosi. [Italian See Virtuous.]. (Websters 1913)

Specialty Definitions: Virtuoso

Domain	Definitions
Literature	Virtuoso A man fond of virtu or skilled therein; a dilettant�. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.
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Specialty Definition: Virtuoso

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

A virtuoso is a musician who has attained the highest level of skill at playing a specific instrument. Virtuosos can play any piece of music written for their instrument.

Vivaldi's violin concertos were the first pieces of music written specifically for virtuosos.

Modern guitar virtuosos include Steve Vai, Jeff Beck, and Yngwie J. Malmsteen.

Modern harpsichord virtuoso include Hendrik Bouman, Kethil Haugsand, Ton Koopman, Gustav Leonhardt, Trevor Pinnock, Andreas Staier

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Virtuoso."

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Synonyms: Virtuoso

Synonyms: consummate (adj), masterful (adj), masterly (adj), virtuoso(a) (adj), ace (n), adept (n), genius (n), hotshot (n), maven (n), sensation (n), star (n), whiz (n), whizz (n), wiz (n), wizard (n). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Virtuoso

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Taste	Man of taste; connoisseur, judge, critic, conoscente, virtuoso, amateur, dilettante, Aristarchus, Corinthian, arbiter elegantiarum, stagirite, euphemist.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Virtuoso

English words defined with "virtuoso": Bravura ♦ coloratura, consummate, Curioso ♦ Franz Liszt ♦ Ganza ♦ Horowitz ♦ Liszt ♦ masterful, masterly ♦ Rachmaninoff, Rachmaninov ♦ Sergei Rachmaninoff, Sergei Rachmaninov, Sergei Vasilievich Rachmaninoff, Sergei Vasilievich Rachmaninov ♦ Virtuosi, virtuosity, Virtuosos, Virtuosoship, Vladimir Horowitz. (references)

Specialty definitions using "virtuoso": Bed-post ♦ FIDDLER. (references)

Etymologies containing "virtuoso": Virtuous. (references)

Non-English Usage: "Virtuoso" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses.

Italian (moral, righteous, virtuoso, virtuous), Portuguese (graceful, honest, nice guy, sainted, virtuoso, virtuous), Spanish (moral, righteous, virtuoso, virtuous).

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Modern Usage: Virtuoso

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	I must congratulate you on your virtuoso performance, my boy. Centauri is impressed. (The Last Starfighter; writing credit: Jonathan R. Betuel) Of course, I'm not a virtuoso. (Hold 'Em Jail; writing credit: Walter DeLeon; Lew Lupton)
Movie/TV Titles	Virtuoso (2000) The Virtuoso (1914) Virtuoso (1988)
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Commercial Usage: Virtuoso

Domain	Title
Books	Clara Schumann : Piano Virtuoso (reference) Domenico Dragonetti in England (1794-1846): The Career of a Double Bass Virtuoso (reference) Franz Liszt: The Virtuoso Years, 1811-1847 (reference) Joe Pass: Virtuoso Standards, Songbook Collection Authentic Guitar-Tab Edition (Virtuoso Series) (reference) (more book examples)

Theater & Movies	Isaac Stern: Life's Virtuoso (reference) Albert Lee: Virtuoso Techniques (reference) Red Green - Duct Tape Virtuoso Deluxe (reference) (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music	Christopher Parkening - The Great Recordings ~ By America's Preeminent Guitar Virtuoso (reference) Virtuoso Horn (reference) Virtuoso Piano Transcriptions (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)
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Image Slideshow: Virtuoso

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Photo Album: Virtuoso

Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	The White House virtuoso composes a ballad to Broyhill.Credit: Library of Congress.
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Usage Frequency: Virtuoso

"Virtuoso" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 98.40% of the time. "Virtuoso" is used about 125 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)	98.4%	123	28,925
Noun (proper)	0.8%	1	339,140
Noun (common)	0.8%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	125	N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expression: Virtuoso

Hyphenated Usage
	Beginning with "virtuoso": virtuoso-standard.
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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Virtuoso

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
virtuoso	107
virtuoso travel	14
guitar virtuoso	9
virtuoso travel agency	6
virtuoso violin	4
contrabajo el en virtuoso	4
lx virtuoso	3
ht720 virtuoso	3
casino virtuoso	3
lesson virtuoso	3
virtuoso travel agent	3
circulo virtuoso	2
hamer virtuoso	2
cadence virtuoso	2
sonance virtuoso	2
hip hop virtuoso	2
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Modern Translations: Virtuoso

Language		Translations for "virtuoso"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		virtuoz, njeri me shijë artistike. (various references)

Arabic		‏فنان مبدع, ‏الباحث العالم. (various references)

Bulgarian		ценител на изкуството, виртуоз. (various references)

Chinese		艺术鉴赏家 (Virtuosos). (various references)

Czech		virtuos. (various references)

Dutch		virtuoos. (various references)

Esperanto		virtuozo. (various references)

Farsi		هنرمند (Artist, Craftsman, Handicraft), هنرشناس , خوش قریحه , دارای ذوق هنری . (various references)

Finnish		taituri (master), soittotaituri. (various references)

French		virtuose. (various references)

German		Virtuose, Virtuosin, Virtuos. (various references)

Greek		βιρτουόζοσ, αριστοτέχνησ μουσικόσ. (various references)

Hebrew		וירטואוז, רב אמן (maestro). (various references)

Hungarian		mûértõ (connoisseur). (various references)

Italian		virtuoso (moral, righteous, virtuous). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		妙手 (expert, master). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		みょうしゅ (expert, exquisite beauty or charms, master). (various references)

Manx		fer ullee, fer lauee (handyman), ben ullee. (various references)

Pig Latin		irtuosovay

Polish		wirtuoz. (various references)

Portuguese		virtuose. (various references)

Romanian		virtuos (chaste, moral, nice, pious, virtuous). (various references)

Russian		виртуоз. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		virtuoz. (various references)

Spanish		virtuoso (moral, righteous, virtuous). (various references)

Swedish		virtuos. (various references)

Turkish		virtüoz, güzel sanatlar meraklısı kimse, üstât (old hand, past master, topflighter, topnotcher). (various references)

Ukranian		цінитель мистецтва, віртуоз. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Virtuoso

Derivations
	Words beginning with "virtuoso": virtuosos. (additional references)
	Words ending with "virtuoso": supervirtuoso. (additional references)
	Words containing "virtuoso": supervirtuosos. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Virtuoso" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Varotsos, Vartosk, virtous, virtuos, virtuose, virtuouse, virtuso, virtusou. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Virtuoso"

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "virtuoso" (pronounced verkhuwō"sō)
3	-ō" s ō	amoroso, mosso.
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Anagrams: Virtuoso

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "i-o-o-r-s-t-u-v"
	-1 letter: riotous.
	-2 letters: suitor, torous, virtus.
	-3 letters: riots, roost, roots, rotis, rotos, roust, routs, stour, tiros, toros, torsi, torso, torus, tours, trios, trois, virtu, virus, visor.
	-4 letters: oots, orts, ours, oust, outs, riot, root, roti, roto, rots, rout, rust, ruts, soot, sori, sort, sour, stir, suit, tiro, tori, toro, tors, tour, trio, tuis.
	-5 letters: its, oot.
	Words containing the letters "i-o-o-r-s-t-u-v"
	+1 letter: virtuosos.
	+2 letters: victorious.
	+3 letters: outsavoring, revolutions.
	+4 letters: equivocators, overcautions, overcautious, overdiscount, victoriously.
	+5 letters: arteriovenous, insectivorous, overambitious, overdiscounts, revolutionise, revolutionist, supervirtuoso.
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