maven

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  • A maven (rhymes with "raven") is not just someone who knows everything there is to know about a subject, be it wine or cigars or stereo systems; a maven is a connoisseur, a devotee, a disciple of his or her passion. —  The Word Detective
  • Once I saw a letter written on luxurious stationery by a studio maven, about buying an option on a novel of mine about Greek archeology, Artifact. —  F ;SF; - vol 089 issue 04-05 - October-November 1995
  • In maven, the user invokes a phase name (or names), and Maven runs all previous build phases that belong to the same lifecycle as the invoked phase (s). —  Dashboard RSS Feed
  • I'm not a storage maven, and I don't understand all the details of that stuff. —  DBMS2 -- DataBase Management System Services
  • There's a beginning class for those who know bupkes, an intermediate class for people with a bisl more knowledge and an advanced course for the Yid maven -- bet you didn't know that word was Yiddish. —  Articles
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  1. Yiddish meyvn, from Hebrew mēbîn, active participle of hēbîn, to understand, derived stem of bîn, to discern; see byn in Semitic roots.
 

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