Virtuoso

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  • noun. A musician with masterly ability, technique, or personal style.
  • noun. A person with masterly skill or technique in the arts.
  • noun. A person with a strong interest in the fine arts, especially in antiquities.
  • noun. A very learned person.
  • adjective. Exhibiting the ability, technique, or personal style of a virtuoso.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. An experimental philosopher; a student of things by direct observation.
  • noun. One who has an instructed appreciation of artistic excellence; a person skilled in or having a critical taste for any of the elegant arts, as painting, sculpture, etc.; one having special knowledge or skill in antiquities, curiosities, and the like.
  • noun. One who is a master of the mechanical part of a fine art, especially music, and who makes display of his dexterity. See virtuosity, 2.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. One devoted to virtu; one skilled in the fine arts, in antiquities, and the like; a collector or ardent admirer of curiosities, etc.
  • noun. A performer on some instrument, as the violin or the piano, who excels in the technical part of his art; a brilliant concert player.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. A person (especially a musician) with masterly ability, technique, or personal style
  • adjective. Exhibiting the ability of a virtuoso
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adjective. having or revealing supreme mastery or skill
  • noun. a musician who is a consummate master of technique and artistry
  • noun. someone who is dazzlingly skilled in any field
  • Word Usage
    "Mr. Hamelin finds the word "virtuoso," which is invariably applied to his playing, a somewhat derogatory descriptive that implies mere showmanship, he said during a recent interview in a practice room at Mannes."
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    expert  
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    skilled  
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    musician  
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    amoroso  glorioso  mosso  
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    A per se  Daedalian  ace  adept  adept  
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    virtuosi