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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
aficionado
noun
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ a movie aficionado
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Aspirants and aficionados alike ought to be queuing up outside bookstores to lay hands on it.
▪ But true opera aficionados were perhaps less surprised.
▪ Early music aficionados will have to go a lot farther than the Peninsula to find comparable satisfaction.
▪ Like a crossword aficionado you developed an affinity with certain compilers - and from Ximenes you stayed well clear!
▪ We became aficionados of water before Perrier was a name.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
aficionado

1845, from Spanish aficionado "amateur," specifically "devotee of bullfighting," literally "fond of," from afición "affection," from Latin affectionem (see affection). "Most sources derive this word from the Spanish verb aficionar but the verb does not appear in Spanish before 1555, and the word aficionado is recorded in the 1400's" [Barnhart]. In English, originally of devotees of bullfighting; in general use by 1882.

Wiktionary
aficionado

n. 1 (cx obsolete English) An amateur bullfighter. (19th c.) 2 A person who likes, knows about, and appreciates a particular interest or activity (originally bullfighting); a fan or devotee. (from 19th c.)

WordNet
aficionado

  1. n. a fan of bull fighting

  2. a serious devotee of some particular music genre or musical performer

Wikipedia
Aficionado
  1. redirect Fan (person)

Usage examples of "aficionado".

You have to be somewhat of an aficionado to appreciate riding a bike--even a Harley--in this kind of weather.

Usually, she enjoyed getting lost in a throng of art aficionados, eavesdropping on the various off-the-cuff critiques, but just then, the crowd loomed like a threatening swarm.

I dont know what I had expected: maybe still more of the overalled and tieless aficionados squatting and chewing tobacco along the wall as we had seen them in the dining room at breakfast.

Nixon aficionados, they all understood that it would not be available again for a hell of a long time and probably never.

This meeting between the two universities was one of the high spots of the rugby season, and the aficionados travelled thousands of miles to watch it.

Lindbergh case scholars and aficionados have wrangled over what significance, if any, it had beyond her personal tragedy.

That is why most Wood aficionados consider his magnum opus to be an intergalactic graverobber movie called Plan 9 from Outer Space.

Langdon had never seen any evidence of the pendant, nor could he imagine how it could possibly reveal the Holy Grail, and yet Grail aficionados still discussed it ad nauseum on Internet bulletin boards and worldwide-web chat rooms.

It should be noted, though, that none of these writers ever have had any connection with sf or sf fandom previously to their writing sf, and the themes employed are thus often old hat for the aficionado.

You have to be somewhat of an aficionado to appreciate riding a bike--even a Harley--in this kind of weather.

And the fact that Cachat, during the weeks of his captivity, had turned out to be an aficionado of the obscure ancient art form known as films had somehow been a worse offense than any.

It is worth recording that the aficionados were so shaken that only one in ten asked for their money back, and also that the London Daily Mirror made matters much worse by suggesting that the Spaniards adopt cricket as a new national sport.

Arc du Carrousel, art aficionados revered this place for another reason entirely.

Aficion means passion, and an aficionado is one who is passionate about the bullfights.

Esta revista publicó varios capítulos antes de su desaparición, y el ensayo completo fue publicado en forma de fascículo en 1938 por otro grupo de aficionados a la literatura fantástica.