cognoscente

Definitions  ·  Examples  ·  Pronunciations  ·  Etymologies  ·  Related  ·  Statistics  ·  Comments (1)  · 
“
Then with all this talk about healthcare reform and various bills being passed back and forth are you cognoscente of any opportunities that might arise from healthcare reform that could be positive for you guys?

View all »
Definitions (3)

Toggle American Heritage definitions American Heritage Dictionary (1)

  1. noun A person with superior, usually specialized knowledge or highly refined taste; a connoisseur.

Toggle Century definitions Century Dictionary

Toggle GNU Webster definitions GNU Webster's 1913 (1)

Toggle WordNet definitions WordNet (1)

Toggle elsewhere links Elsewhere on the web

View all »
Examples (18)

  • Then with all this talk about healthcare reform and various bills being passed back and forth are you cognoscente of any opportunities that might arise from healthcare reform that could be positive for you guys? —  SeekingAlpha.com: Home Page
  • And equally natural, this invitation-only gathering devolved into an act of supreme embarrassment: a knife fight among the cognoscente.
  • The former superintendent of Boston's public schools, Thomas Payzant, and Birmingham, the former lawmaker and the leading cognoscente of the MCAS status quo, believe the MCAS is the student's best hope for a good public education and any attempt to replace it subverts the concept of a quality test instrument and lessens the chance for employment. —  SouthCoastToday.com Latest Headlines
  • We're very cognoscente of that. —  Public Eye Online
  • Unfortunately, nobody in their right mind is cognoscente nor expected to be au fait with its politics. —  PCLinuxOS-Forums
More examples »
 

Tags

cognoscente hasn't been tagged yet.

Sign up or sign in to add tags.

Stats

This word has been looked up 222 times.

1 person has marked this word as a favorite.

stop updating
On Twitter

Photos from

flickr images

Etymologies (1)

Toggle American Heritage etymologies American Heritage Dictionary (1)

  1. Obsolete Italian, from Latin cognōscēns, cognōscent-, present participle of cognōscere, to know; see cognition.
 

Pronunciations
Record your own »
/It. prɑn. koʊnyoʊ, koʊnoʊˈʃɛntɛ/
by American Heritage

Charts
frequency chart

Bubble size: how much this word was used in a year

Bubble height: used more or less than expected, vs. all uses evenly distributed

We are still working on calculating this word's frequency.

Recently looked up

comprehend · hard-riding · hornbill · waddles · curiositie

Recent Favorites

pygopagus · sanglant · Astacus · sweetbread · qualms

Recent Pronunciations

mamaroneck · maladministration · antidisestablishmentarianism · parsimonious · soliloquy