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nonaficionado

noun

Etymology

From non- + aficionado.

  1. borrowed from aficionado
  2. prefixed as nonaficionado — “non + aficionado”

Definitions

  1. One who is not an aficionado.

    • Burns and Ward see their work as an attempt to reach beyond the factional discord of the “jazzerati” to introduce nonaficionados, and particularly younger Americans, to the story of one of the nation's most distinctive musical traditions.
    • The horror-stricken warnings of opera purists about the perils of singing roles too large for one’s voice may make nonaficionados only more eager to stir things up.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for nonaficionado. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA