Connoisseur definition

kŏnə-sûr, -so͝or
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A person with expert knowledge or training, especially in the fine arts.
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A person who has expert knowledge and keen discrimination in some field, esp. in the fine arts or in matters of taste.
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The definition of a connoisseur is a person who is an expert at something or who has informed and discriminating taste.

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

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A specialist of a given field whose opinion is valued; especially in one of the fine arts, or in a matter of taste.
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A person of informed and discriminating taste.

A connoisseur of fine wines.

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connoisseur
Plural:
connoisseurs

Origin of connoisseur

  • Obsolete French from Old French connoisseor from connoistre to know from Latin cognōscere to learn, know cognition

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • Around 1705–1715, from French connoisseur, from the verb connoître (obsolete pre-1835 spelling of connaître (“to know”)).

    From Wiktionary

Connoisseur Sentence Examples

  • He was a well-known connoisseur of art.

  • He was a man of wide knowledge, a connoisseur in art and music, and the friend of most of the leading authors of his time.

  • A typical academician was the poet, antiquary and connoisseur, Nils Fredrik Sander (1828-1900).

  • The armory was not the collection of a wealthy connoisseur; this was the personal armory of a man accustomed to killing often.

  • Many of KOuns sculptures appear unfinished to eyes trained in Occidental galleries, whereas the Japanese connoisseur detects evidence of a technical feat in their seeming roughness.

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