Appreciator
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 Someone who appreciates a given thing, especially:; Someone who values something highly.
"I find, too, that the chance for appreciation [of imaginative literature] is much increased by being the son of an appreciator, and that these boys who now grow up are caught not only years too late, but two or three births too late, to make the best scholars of."
- 2 a person who is fully aware of something and understands it wordnet
- 3 Someone who appreciates a given thing, especially:; Someone who assesses or appraises the value of something.
"Let no chicaning intermediate agent but suffered to pass between the manufacturers and the Company’s warehouse-keepers and sorters, except the sworn appreciators and examiners, according to standard samples, secreted from the view, and from every possible communication with the owners."
Example
More examples"I find, too, that the chance for appreciation [of imaginative literature] is much increased by being the son of an appreciator, and that these boys who now grow up are caught not only years too late, but two or three births too late, to make the best scholars of."
Etymology
From appreciate + -or and Latin appreciātor.
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