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Virtuoso

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

n. A musician with masterly ability, technique, or personal style.

n. A person with masterly skill or technique in the arts.

n. A person with a strong interest in the fine arts, especially in antiquities.

n. Archaic A very learned person.

adj. Exhibiting the ability, technique, or personal style of a virtuoso: a virtuoso performance.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

n. A person (especially a musician) with masterly ability, technique, or personal style

adj. Exhibiting the ability of a virtuoso

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

n. One devoted to virtu; one skilled in the fine arts, in antiquities, and the like; a collector or ardent admirer of curiosities, etc.

n. A performer on some instrument, as the violin or the piano, who excels in the technical part of his art; a brilliant concert player.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

n. An experimental philosopher; a student of things by direct observation.

n. One who has an instructed appreciation of artistic excellence; a person skilled in or having a critical taste for any of the elegant arts, as painting, sculpture, etc.; one having special knowledge or skill in antiquities, curiosities, and the like.

n. One who is a master of the mechanical part of a fine art, especially music, and who makes display of his dexterity. See virtuosity, 2.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

adj. having or revealing supreme mastery or skill

n. a musician who is a consummate master of technique and artistry

n. someone who is dazzlingly skilled in any field

Word Usage

"Mr. Hamelin finds the word "virtuoso," which is invariably applied to his playing, a somewhat derogatory descriptive that implies mere showmanship, he said during a recent interview in a practice room at Mannes."

Equivalent

skilled

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

musician

Cross Reference

expert

Variant

virtuosi

Synonym

Words with the same meaning

connoisseur mastery adept

Rhyme

Words with the same terminal sound

amoroso glorioso mosso

Same Context

Words that are found in similar contexts

pianist concerto naturalist antiquary composer