connoisseur

The definition of a connoisseur is a person who is an expert at something or who has informed and discriminating taste.

(noun)

An example of connoissuer is an art expert who only likes certain great artists.

See connoisseur in Webster's New World College Dictionary

noun

a person who has expert knowledge and keen discrimination in some field, esp. in the fine arts or in matters of taste

Origin: Fr (now connaisseur) < OFr conoisseor, a judge, one well versed < conoistre < L cognoscere, to know: see cognition

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noun

Origin:

Origin: Obsolete French

Origin: , from Old French connoisseor

Origin: , from connoistre, to know

Origin: , from Latin cognōscere, to learn, know; see cognition

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