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aficionado

UK/əˌfɪʃ.(j)əˈnɑː.dəʊ//əˌfɪʃ.(j)əˈnɑ.doʊ/

aficionado noun: an amateur bullfighter.

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
    • A journey along the Conwy Valley line is one to savour for aficionados of scenic railways.2020 August 26, Andrew Mourant, “Reinforced against future flooding”, in Rail, page 58

aficionado meaning in Urdu and Malayalam

aficionado in Urdu

عقیدت مند, جوشیلا, پرجوش پجاری

aficionado in Malayalam

expert, connoisseur, authority
രസജ്ഞൻ, കലാഭിജ്ഞൻ, കലാമർമ്മജ്ഞൻ, കലാധരൻ, കലാനിപുണൻ, വിദഗ്ദ്ധൻ

Examples of aficionado in a sentence

  • Most canoe aficionados would argue that motorizing a canoe removes the pleasurable aspects of traveling in one.
  • The hippie way of life seems to have rubbed off on him, as he's a flower power aficionado.
  • Famous comic book writer Stan Lee had a cameo in the Spider-Man movie. He was on screen for perhaps ten seconds, but aficionados distinctly remember him.

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Synonyms of aficionado

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Forms of aficionado

pluralaficionados
pluralaficionadoes
alternative formafficionado
plural hypercorrect (rare)aficionadi

Plural of aficionado: aficionados or aficionadoes

Origin of aficionado

Borrowed from Spanish aficionado (“fan, amateur”), past participle of aficionar (“to inspire fondness in someone, to get someone interested in something”). Doublet of affectionate.

Words formed from aficionado

Questions about aficionado

What does aficionado mean?
Aficionado means an amateur bullfighter.
What is aficionado in Urdu?
Aficionado in Urdu is عقیدت مند, جوشیلا, پرجوش پجاری. See Aficionado meaning in Urdu.
What part of speech is aficionado?
Aficionado is a noun.
How do you pronounce aficionado?
Aficionado is pronounced /əˌfɪʃ.(j)əˈnɑː.dəʊ/ (UK).
What is the plural of aficionado?
The plural of aficionado is aficionados.

Words near aficionado in the dictionary

  1. afibs
  2. aficamten
  3. aficionada
  4. aficionadas
  5. aficionadi
  6. aficionado
  7. aficionadoes
  8. aficionados
  9. afield
  10. afikoman
  11. afikomans

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: aficionado (page history and authors); aficionado (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); aficionado (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). 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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