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afficionado

afficionado is the alternative spelling of aficionado.

Meaning of aficionado

Noun

aficionado (plural aficionados or aficionadoes or (rare, hypercorrect) aficionadi)

  1. (obsolete) An amateur bullfighter.
  2. A person who likes, knows about, and appreciates a particular interest or activity (originally bullfighting); a fan or devotee.
    • To the "closet" taxonomist and aficionado of nomenclatural exercises, such emphasis may seem an intrusion.1992, Rudolf M[athias] Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, Chicago, Ill.: Field Museum of Natural History, →ISBN, page ix

Forms of afficionado

pluralafficionados
plural hypercorrectafficionadi

Questions about afficionado

What is afficionado the alternative spelling of?
Afficionado is the alternative spelling of aficionado.

Words near afficionado in the dictionary

  1. affiche
  2. affiched
  3. affiches
  4. affiching
  5. afficionadi
  6. afficionado
  7. afficionados
  8. Afficky
  9. affidavies
  10. affidavit
  11. affidavit man

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Adapted from Wiktionary: afficionado (page history and authors); aficionado (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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