Maven definition
An example of a maven is someone who knows all about wine.
Pam is a coffee maven; she knows so much about coffee.
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Origin of maven
- Yiddish meyvn from Hebrew mēbîn active participle of hēbîn to understand derived stem of bîn to discern byn in Semitic roots
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
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