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VIRTUOSO (virtuosi)
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Dictionary entry overview: What does virtuoso mean?
• VIRTUOSO (noun)
The noun VIRTUOSO has 2 senses:
1. someone who is dazzlingly skilled in any field
2. a musician who is a consummate master of technique and artistry
Familiarity information: VIRTUOSO used as a noun is rare.
• VIRTUOSO (adjective)
The adjective VIRTUOSO has 1 sense:
1. having or revealing supreme mastery or skill
Familiarity information: VIRTUOSO used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Someone who is dazzlingly skilled in any field
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Synonyms:
ace; adept; champion; genius; hotshot; maven; mavin; sensation; star; superstar; virtuoso; whiz; whizz; wiz; wizard
Hypernyms ("virtuoso" is a kind of...):
expert (a person with special knowledge or ability who performs skillfully)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "virtuoso"):
track star (a star runner)
Derivation:
virtuoso (having or revealing supreme mastery or skill)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A musician who is a consummate master of technique and artistry
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Hypernyms ("virtuoso" is a kind of...):
musician (artist who composes or conducts music as a profession)
Derivation:
virtuoso (having or revealing supreme mastery or skill)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Having or revealing supreme mastery or skill
Synonyms:
consummate; masterful; masterly; virtuoso
Context example:
a virtuoso performance
Similar:
skilled (having or showing or requiring special skill)
Derivation:
virtuoso (someone who is dazzlingly skilled in any field)
virtuoso (a musician who is a consummate master of technique and artistry)
Context examples
One of these virtuosi seemed to think that I might be an embryo, or abortive birth.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
Beautiful and valuable knick-knacks filled every corner of every apartment, and the house had become a perfect miniature museum which would have delighted a virtuoso.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
I had no occasion of bribing, flattering, or pimping, to procure the favour of any great man, or of his minion; I wanted no fence against fraud or oppression: here was neither physician to destroy my body, nor lawyer to ruin my fortune; no informer to watch my words and actions, or forge accusations against me for hire: here were no gibers, censurers, backbiters, pickpockets, highwaymen, housebreakers, attorneys, bawds, buffoons, gamesters, politicians, wits, splenetics, tedious talkers, controvertists, ravishers, murderers, robbers, virtuosos; no leaders, or followers, of party and faction; no encouragers to vice, by seducement or examples; no dungeon, axes, gibbets, whipping-posts, or pillories; no cheating shopkeepers or mechanics; no pride, vanity, or affectation; no fops, bullies, drunkards, strolling whores, or poxes; no ranting, lewd, expensive wives; no stupid, proud pedants; no importunate, overbearing, quarrelsome, noisy, roaring, empty, conceited, swearing companions; no scoundrels raised from the dust upon the merit of their vices, or nobility thrown into it on account of their virtues; no lords, fiddlers, judges, or dancing-masters.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
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