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maven
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Word definitions for maven in dictionaries
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Word definitions in Wikipedia
Maven is the current best known artificial intelligence Scrabble player, created by Brian Sheppard. It has been used in official licensed Hasbro Scrabble games, and the downloadable Funkitron Scrabble.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1965, from Yiddish meyvn , from Hebrew mebhin , literally "one who understands." Plural is mayvinim .
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. someone who is dazzlingly skilled in any field [syn: ace , adept , champion , sensation , mavin , virtuoso , genius , hotshot , star , superstar , whiz , whizz , wizard , wiz ]
Usage examples of maven.
Neidorf was not a UNIX maven, and simply lacked the necessary skill and ability to break into computers.
In the next instant Maven was charging up the steps, followed by a horde of Homicides.
In a red-misted daze he heard Maven babble for mercy and then scream piteously, like a woman.
Unfortunately the new maven of decorum, Miss Manners, has written virtually nothing about what is proper behavior at a crime scene.
FBI Agent Mavens, the man who might have found the truth in the first place, in the old pre-WormCam days.
The Deadhead community boasts any number of recording engineers, lighting experts, rock video mavens, electronic technicians of all descriptions.
Treated with gingerly respect by Barlow and other Well mavens, Phiber Optik swiftly became a Well celebrity.
The Agency remained mysterious even in action, which kept the media mavens abuzz but information-starved.
Poor Fred, sufficient to inspire pilgrimages to these hinterlands by culture mavens from all over the 2 GENEROUS DEATH world.
She well knew that government civilians took these things much more seriously, and she sensed that the NIS headquarters mavens were circling the wagons over this one.
CNN this morning, I guess all you art mavens will be calling in with useless information.
Nell and I are hardly mavens of medieval church architecture, but we find this one surprisingly light and suffused with an unexpected warmth.
The Deadhead community boasts any number of recording engineers, lighting experts, rock video mavens, electronic technicians of all descriptions.
Treated with gingerly respect by Barlow and other Well mavens, Phiber Optik swiftly became a Well celebrity.
She well knew that government civilians took these things much more seriously, and she sensed that the NIS headquarters mavens were circling the wagons over this one.