What is "afficionado"

Usage examples of "afficionado".

I will discuss later, shojo manga acquired a certain number of male readers, but even so that readership has not expanded beyond a limited number of afficionados.

Mingolla had only heard of the pits third- and fourth-hand, but what he had heard was bad, and it was hard to believe that this kid with his air of homeboy innocence could be an afficionado of something so vile.

NPT, possibly because the polo and sports car afficionado with the posh accent lacks the diplomatic gloss appropriate to this sensitive enterprise.

This fact has long been known to science-fiction afficionados and UFO contactees.

The Ankh-Morpork scenes are ripe for the knife if length becomes a problem, with the Thieves' Guild scene the first to go, particularly if your audience are not Discworld afficionados (although Monty Python fans will recognise the relentless logic of the Theft Licence).

Her automatic produced a cloud of sharp-smelling smoke, unlike the pulsers most people came here to fire, but at least there were enough other chemical firearm afficionados in the Navy for the range to have been provided with a highly efficient ventilation system.