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cognoscente
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun cognoscente has 1 sense
- cognoscente(n = noun.person) connoisseur - an expert able to appreciate a field; especially in the fine arts; Array is a kind of authority
has particulars: aesthete, esthete, wine lover
CIDE DICTIONARY
cognoscente, n. [OIt. cognoscente, p. pr. of cognoscere, It. conoscere to know.].
A connoisseur. Mason. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
cognoscente, n. (pl. cognoscenti) (usu. in pl.) a connoisseur.
Etymology
It., lit. one who knows
THESAURUS
cognoscente
aesthete, amateur, annotator, arbiter, arbiter elegantiarum, arbiter of taste, authority, bon vivant, captious critic, carper, caviler, censor, censurer, collector, commentator, commenter, connaisseur, connoisseur, critic, criticaster, criticizer, critickin, criticule, dab, dilettante, editor, epicure, epicurean, expert, faultfinder, good judge, gourmand, gourmet, judge, literary critic, man of letters, maven, muckraker, proficient, refined palate, reviewer, scholiast, smellfungus, social critic, specialist, textual critic, virtuoso
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