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Plural of aficionado

regular plural

The plural of aficionado is aficionados or aficionadoes.

Forms of aficionado

Singularaficionado /əˌfɪʃ.(j)əˈnɑː.dəʊ/
Pluralaficionados
aficionadoes
Countablecountable

Aficionados and aficionadoes in a sentence

  • 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
  • The marketing of this relatively new money has so far been limited mostly to ads on trade websites and targeted pushes on social media, where aficionados swap meme-fueled in-jokes about coin values rocketing to the moon.2021 July 7, Tiffany Hsu, Coral Murphy Marcos, “Cryptocurrency Seeks the Spotlight, With Spike Lee’s Help”, in The New York Times, archived...
  • Most canoe aficionados would argue that motorizing a canoe removes the pleasurable aspects of traveling in one.From the entry motorize
  • 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.From the entry cameo
  • The online tourists then uploaded the files to share with other BBS aficionados.2012, Michael Banks, On the Way to the Web. From the entry tourist

Meaning of aficionado

  1. noun An amateur bullfighter.
  2. noun A person who likes, knows about, and appreciates a particular interest or activity (originally bullfighting); a fan or devotee.

Full definition of aficionado

Questions about the plural of aficionado

What is the plural of aficionado?
The plural of aficionado is aficionados or aficionadoes.
Which is correct, aficionados or aficionadoes?
Both are used. aficionados is the more common of the two in English writing.
Is aficionado countable?
Aficionado is a countable noun.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: aficionado (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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