Definition of "aficionado" []

• An enthusiastic admirer or follower; a fan. (noun)

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• "Shankar Chatterjee, a medical doctor and hockey aficionado, is focusing on the sport's future."
• "My mother on the other hand, is a big time sea urchin aficionado and will eat the roe a la carte straight from the ocean."
• "Mr. Wakamatsu was known as an aficionado of geiko and our world."