virtuoso

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And if audience members heard him at a Northeastern Pennsylvania Philharmonic concert - as they did Friday night at the Mellow Theater in Scranton - they'd applaud wildly and understand why he's known as a virtuoso trumpeter.

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  1. noun A musician with masterly ability, technique, or personal style.
  2. noun A person with masterly skill or technique in the arts.
  3. noun A person with a strong interest in the fine arts, especially in antiquities.

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  • The British team, currently playing sYnck for the Extreme Masters qualifier, started the game against the Estonian side under the name virtuoso, and speculation suggesting that 4Kings had parted ways with the team immediately surfaced. —  GotFrag eSports Stories
  • Kottke became known as a virtuoso via his innovative finger-picking technique, and he plays the guitar with an ease that makes it seem like an extension of his body. —  Austinist
  • And if audience members heard him at a Northeastern Pennsylvania Philharmonic concert - as they did Friday night at the Mellow Theater in Scranton - they'd applaud wildly and understand why he's known as a virtuoso trumpeter. —  Times Leader News
  • Another could perform calculations almost with the speed of a computer and a third could play the piano as a virtuoso, performing compositions written by composers long before he was born. —  Salem-News.com
  • His dexterity in various metres was that of a great virtuoso, and it was not the mere dexterity which conquers difficulties, it was a skill inspired and sustained by the sentiment of metre Of the other members of the Plιiade, one--Jodelle--is remembered chiefly in connection with the history of the drama. —  A History of French Literature Short Histories of the Literatures of the World: II.
 

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  1. Italian, skilled, of great worth, virtuoso, from Late Latin virtuōsus, virtuous, from Latin virtūs, excellence; see virtue.

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  1. = French virtuose, from Italian virtuoso, a virtuoso, literally one who is excellent, i. e. excels in taste: see virtuous.
 

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/vɪrtuˈoʊsoʊ/
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