Crossword clues for cognoscenti
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Cognoscente \Cog`nos*cen"te\, n.; pl. Cognoscenti. [OIt.
cognoscente, p. pr. of cognoscere, It. conoscere to know.]
A connoisseur.
--Mason.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
plural of cognoscente (q.v.).
Wiktionary
n. (plural of cognoscente English)
WordNet
n. an expert able to appreciate a field; especially in the fine arts [syn: connoisseur]
Wikipedia
The Cognoscenti (Joshua Pryce, Al & "Baby Girl" Steadbaur), are fictional monster characters appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. The characters first appeared in Secret Defenders #19.
Usage examples of "cognoscenti".
Despite his plush accommodations, he had always dreamed of owning a riverside apartment on L'lle Saint-Louis, where he could rub shoulders with the true cognoscenti, rather than here, where he simply met the filthy rich.
The caption read, Art for Cognoscenti Club are honoured to present as 'Pic.
When everything went to hell and the CPU began spewing out random bits, the result, on a CLI machine, was lines and lines of perfectly formed but random characters on the screen--known to cognoscenti as "going Cyrillic.
This fellow was the second person who turned me on to Macintoshes, by the way, and through the mid-1980's we had shared the thrill of being high-tech cognoscenti, using superior Apple technology in a world of DOS-using knuckleheads.
All the self-styled Harvard cognoscenti assembled in Radcliffe's Agassiz Theater to sit in judgment on Maria Pastore's choreography and Daniel Rossi's score.
The biggest audience ever squeezed into the Albert Hall were bitterly disappointed, but they saw Boris's deathly pallor and his youth and some of the cognoscenti remembered his defection from Russia.