aficionado
noun/əˌfɪʃəˈnɑːdəʊ/
/əˌfɪʃəˈnɑːdəʊ/
(plural aficionados)
- a person who likes a particular sport, activity or subject very much and knows a lot about it
- a ballet aficionado/an aficionado of ballet
- This coffee is regarded by aficionados as one of the world’s finest.
- He’s an aficionado of the history of the game.
- Jazz aficionados gathered at the Hollywood Bowl last night for a tribute concert.
Oxford Collocations DictionaryAficionado is used after these nouns:- art
- music
Word Originmid 19th cent. (denoting a devotee of bullfighting): from Spanish, ‘amateur’, past participle of aficioner ‘become fond of’ used as a noun, based on Latin affectio(n-) ‘(favourable) disposition towards’, from afficere ‘to influence’, from ad- ‘at, to’ + facere ‘do’.
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