Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. An enthusiastic admirer or follower; a fan.
Wiktionary
- n. A person who likes, knows about, and appreciates a particular interest or activity; a fan or devotee.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a serious devotee of some particular music genre or musical performer
- n. a fan of bull fighting
Etymologies
- From Spanish, past participle of aficionar, to inspire affection, from afición, affection, from Latin affectio (Wiktionary)
- Spanish, past participle of aficionar, to induce a liking for, from afición, liking, from Latin affectiō, affectiōn-; see affection. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Shankar Chatterjee, a medical doctor and hockey aficionado, is focusing on the sport's future.”
“My mother on the other hand, is a big time sea urchin aficionado and will eat the roe a la carte straight from the ocean.”
“Mr. Wakamatsu was known as an aficionado of geiko and our world.”
“Toronto, Canada - Consider yourself a word aficionado?”
“Any true crime aficionado is familiar with Gregg’s work – seven non-fiction titles, New York Times bestseller, oft-quoted television personality, expert is all things criminal.”
“NGCA, Thu to 18 JunRCCollector, curator and erstwhile art dealer, Monika Kinley is well known as an aficionado of outsider art.”
“Dash, a pseudo hipster word aficionado, stumbles upon a red moleskin notebook tucked inside a dust covered book hidden within 18 miles of shelves of Downtown Manhattan's Strand bookstore.”
The Huffington Post: Caitlin Colford: Required Holiday Reading: Dash and Lily's Book of Dares
“While this designer clothes problem often surprises her with $900 credit card bills, it has also made Rebecca a bit of a fashion aficionado, which is the foundation for her dream of becoming a writer for the fashion magazine Alette.”
“The real leather fiend or at least shoe sniffing "aficionado" was his arch-enemy, the libertine writer Restif de la Bretonne!”
“Not unusual for Mexico, though I love it and am dedicated "aficionado".”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘aficionado’.
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250 Extra Spelling Words
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aberration, abstruse, anomaly, assiduous, august, banal, boisterous, dulcet, epitome, impudent, insolent, mellifluous and 401 more...
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aberration, abstruse, anomaly, assiduous, august, banal, boisterous, dulcet, epitome, impudent, insolent, mellifluous and 401 more...
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aberration, abstruse, anomaly, assiduous, august, banal, boisterous, dulcet, epitome, impudent, insolent, mellifluous and 401 more...
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Shadowkeir's list
This list, the one shown below this very message, is a collection of words that you cannot begin to fathom how much I adore. The list will also feature atithesis and contrasting words such as the t...
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The Sog Collection
My big word list.
chaos, flaccid, empirical, flotsam, cacophony, grumble, assuage, awe, romance, mortality, coalesce, fortuitous and 3282 more...
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Appellations
States of ment.
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Tweets
Looking for tweets for aficionado.
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