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Connoisseur - 4 dictionary results

con⋅nois⋅seur

[kon-uh-sur, -soor]
–noun
1. a person who is especially competent to pass critical judgments in an art, particularly one of the fine arts, or in matters of taste: a connoisseur of modern art.
2. a discerning judge of the best in any field: a connoisseur of horses.

Origin:
1705–15; < F; OF conoiseor < L cognōscitōr- (s. of cognōscitor) knower. See cognoscible, -tor


con⋅nois⋅seur⋅ship, noun


critic, aesthete.
con·nois·seur   (kŏn'ə-sûr', -sŏŏr')   
n.  
  1. A person with expert knowledge or training, especially in the fine arts.
  2. A person of informed and discriminating taste: a connoisseur of fine wines.

[Obsolete French, from Old French connoisseor, from connoistre, to know, from Latin cognōscere, to learn, know; see cognition.]
con'nois·seur'ship' n.

Connoisseur

Con`nois*seur"\ (?; 277), n. [F. connaisseur, formerly connoisseur, fr. conna[^i]tre to know, fr. L. cognoscere to become acquainted with; co- + noscere, gnoscere, to learn to know. See Know, amd cf. Cognizor.] One well versed in any subject; a skillful or knowing person; a critical judge of any art, particulary of one of the fine arts.

The connoisseur is "one who knows," as opposed to the dilettant, who only "thinks he knows." --Fairholt.
Language Translation for : Connoisseur
Spanish: entendido, conocedor,
German: der Kenner,
Japanese: 鑑定家

connoisseur 
1714, from Fr., from O.Fr. conoisseor "a judge, one well-versed," from conoistre, from L. cognoscere "to know," from com- "with" + gnoscere "recognize" (see notice).
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