He is the painter who has been held to combine the most complete grace of form with sublimity of expression. Such at least I have gathered to be the opinion of cognoscenti.
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Cognoscente
//ˌkɑɡnəˈʃɛnti//
Synonyms for "cognoscente" (54 found)
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18 translations across 10 languages.
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 行家 noun (someone possessing specialized knowledge in a particular field)
Czech
2 entries- expert noun (someone possessing specialized knowledge in a particular field)
- znalec noun (someone possessing specialized knowledge in a particular field)
Dutch
2 entries- expert noun (someone possessing specialized knowledge in a particular field)
- kenner noun (someone possessing specialized knowledge in a particular field)
Finnish
1 entries- asiantuntija noun (someone possessing specialized knowledge in a particular field)
French
2 entries- connaisseur noun (someone possessing specialized knowledge in a particular field)
- expert noun (someone possessing specialized knowledge in a particular field)
German
2 entries- Kenner noun (someone possessing specialized knowledge in a particular field)
- Kennerin noun (someone possessing specialized knowledge in a particular field)
Persian
1 entries- اهل فن noun (someone possessing specialized knowledge in a particular field)
Russian
2 entries- знато́к noun (someone possessing specialized knowledge in a particular field)
- экспе́рт noun (someone possessing specialized knowledge in a particular field)
Spanish
2 entries- conocedor noun (someone possessing specialized knowledge in a particular field)
- experto noun (someone possessing specialized knowledge in a particular field)
Swedish
3 entries- expert noun (someone possessing specialized knowledge in a particular field)
- förståsigpåare noun (someone possessing specialized knowledge in a particular field)
- kännare noun (someone possessing specialized knowledge in a particular field)
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He was a brilliant cosmopolite and a cognoscente of high rank; but, after all, he was of the same race and blood and instinct as this people.
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At night, as creative author, the cognoscente sketched out the first draft of his expanded autobiography.
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This was before Wozniak—known among the cognoscenti as Woz—almost woke up the Pope by calling the Vatican on his famed illegal "blue box," before he invented the Apple II and helped launch the personal computer industry, and before he gave up his brilliant engineering career and became a public school teacher.
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