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Definition of "esthete" [es•thete]

  • Variant of aesthete. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "esthete" in a sentence
  • "If you were to ask our eight-year-old where she spends her weekends, her current answer would be the Museum of Modern Art. And not because she's a mini-esthete with beret and attitude -- this season MOMA simply packs more fun in a single building than any other venue in Manhattan."
  • "It makes him the CEO as esthete -- as un-American an image as they come."
  • "A cultivated esthete, Manookian was fascinated by the French novelist Gustave Flaubert's Salammbo, a historical novel set in ancient Carthage."