Virtuoso

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Virtuoso \Vir`tu*o"so\, n.; pl. {Virtuosos}; It. {Virtuosi}.
     [It. See {Virtuous}.]
     1. One devoted to virtu; one skilled in the fine arts, in
        antiquities, and the like; a collector or ardent admirer
        of curiosities, etc.
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              Virtuoso the Italians call a man who loves the noble
              arts, and is a critic in them.        --Dryden.
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     2. (Mus.) A performer on some instrument, as the violin or
        the piano, who excels in the technical part of his art; a
        brilliant concert player.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  virtuoso
       adj : having or revealing supreme mastery or skill; "a consummate
             artist"; "consummate skill"; "a masterful speaker";
             "masterful technique"; "a masterly performance of the
             sonata"; "a virtuoso performance" [syn: {consummate}, {masterful},
              {masterly}, {virtuoso(a)}]
       n 1: someone who is dazzlingly skilled in any field [syn: {ace},
            {adept}, {champion}, {sensation}, {maven}, {mavin}, {genius},
             {hotshot}, {star}, {superstar}, {whiz}, {whizz}, {wizard},
             {wiz}]
       2: a musician who is a consummate master of technique and
          artistry
       [also: {virtuosi} (pl)]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  153 Moby Thesaurus words for "virtuoso":
     A per se, Daedalian, ace, adept, adroit, amateur, apt, arbiter,
     arbiter elegantiarum, arbiter of taste, artist, artiste, artistic,
     authoritative, authority, bon vivant, boss, bravura, brilliant,
     champion, chief, clean, clever, cognoscente, collector, commander,
     concert artist, connaisseur, connoisseur, coordinated, crack,
     crackerjack, critic, cunning, cute, dabster, daedal, dazzling,
     dean, deft, dexterous, dextrous, dilettante, diplomatic, epicure,
     epicurean, excellent, exceptional, executant, expert,
     extraordinary, fancy, first-rate, first-rater, fugleman, genius,
     good, good hand, good judge, goodish, gourmand, gourmet, graceful,
     great, handy, head, higher-up, ingenious, interpreter, judge,
     laureate, leader, leading light, luminary, maestro, magician,
     magisterial, mahatma, man of genius, master, master hand,
     masterful, masterly, mastermind, matchless, maven, minstrel,
     minstrelsy, music maker, music-loving, musical, musically inclined,
     musician, musicianly, musicophile, neat, no mean, nonpareil,
     old hand, paragon, past master, peerless, performer, philharmonic,
     player, politic, practiced hand, principal, prodigious, prodigy,
     professional, proficient, quick, quite some, ready, refined palate,
     remarkable, resourceful, ruler, sage, senior, skilled hand,
     skillful, slick, soloist, some, star, statesmanlike, sterling,
     stylish, superb, superior, superlative, superman, superstar,
     tactful, talent, talented, the compleat, the complete,
     the greatest, the most, top dog, topnotcher, tunester, virtuosa,
     virtuose, virtuosic, well-done, whiz, wizard, wonder,
     workmanlike