Definition of Connoiseur

Definition of Connoiseur

Con`nois*seur" (?; 277), n. [F. connaisseur, formerly connoisseur, fr. connaître to know, fr. L. cognoscere to become acquainted with; co- + noscere, gnoscere, to learn to know. See Know, amd cf. Cognizor.] One well versed in any subject; a skillful or knowing person; a critical judge of any art, particulary of one of the fine arts.

The connoisseur is "one who knows," as opposed to the dilettant, who only "thinks he knows."
Fairholt.

- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

CONNOISSEUR, n. A specialist who knows everything about something and
nothing about anything else.
An old wine-bibber having been smashed in a railway collision,
some wine was pouted on his lips to revive him. "Pauillac, 1873," he
murmured and died.

- 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue

A specialist of a given field whose opinion is valued.

- The Nuttall Encyclopedia

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