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单词 virtuoso
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Definition of virtuoso in English:

virtuoso

nounPlural virtuosi, Plural virtuosos ˌvəːtʃʊˈəʊzəʊˌvəːtʃʊˈəʊsəʊˌvərtʃəˈwoʊsoʊ
  • 1A person highly skilled in music or another artistic pursuit.

    a celebrated clarinet virtuoso
    as modifier virtuoso guitar playing
    Example sentencesExamples
    • He's an extraordinary fiddle player with a virtuoso technique married to musical mind that won't take anything for granted.
    • All this music needs is a virtuoso with technique to burn and a grand array of tonal colors.
    • The musicians from the Laureate trio staged a virtuoso performance at a concert marking the launching of their new album on Monday.
    • Johan becomes a virtuoso of classical music, a driving force who cannot be ignored.
    • It is not enough to see the painting as a virtuoso manipulation of historical styles.
    • This virtuoso short story collection is emotionally uncompromising and stylistically daring.
    • Now the virtuoso guitarist/composer's classical roots are calling him back.
    • It also excludes music for virtuoso display in the large concert hall, even though only a few instruments may be involved.
    • However, there are so few viola concerti - especially by major composers - that virtuosi seemed driven to perform it anyway.
    • The next week they toured Europe with a Bartok third quartet that had virtuoso fiddlers agape with admiration.
    • Masters like Sorolla, Bouguereau, Zorn and Repin were painting virtuosos.
    • Is it a study, which is unusual for copper, or an exercise in virtuoso brushwork, for which it seems unusually small?
    • The title makes obvious reference to basketball, a sport of virtuoso movement.
    • Puritan writers in New England were virtuosos of the genre.
    • He joins the illustrious ranks of blind virtuosos, alongside renowned organists and other musicians who have triumphed against physical handicap.
    • Walker began his musical career as a virtuoso pianist, with composing and teaching work coming later.
    • The work is a sophisticated, synoptic genre piece, its composition and bravura brushwork invoking forerunners from flashy late Mannerists to late Baroque virtuosos such as Crespi or Piazzetta.
    • Something else they share is that neither is recognised as a virtuoso showpiece for the pianist.
    • Such virtuoso, highly finished bronze groups can be seen as the last gasp of the great tradition of Florentine art.
    • With them, the concerto moves from the virtuoso star turn to distinguished collaboration.
    Synonyms
    genius, expert, master, master hand, artist, maestro, prodigy, marvel, adept, past master, specialist, skilled person, professional, doyen, authority, veteran
    star, champion
    German wunderkind
    informal hotshot, wizard, wiz, whizz, whizz-kid, alpha geek, ninja, buff, pro, ace, something else, something to shout about, something to write home about
    British informal dab hand
    North American informal maven, crackerjack
    rare proficient
    skilful, expert, accomplished, masterly, master, consummate, proficient, talented, gifted, adept, adroit, dexterous, deft, able, good, competent, capable, efficient, experienced, professional, polished, well versed, smart, clever, artful, impressive, outstanding, exceptional, exceptionally good, magnificent, supreme, first-rate, first-class, fine, brilliant, excellent, dazzling, bravura
    informal superb, out of this world, stellar, mean, ace, crack, A1, genius
    North American badass
    vulgar slang shit-hot
  • 2A person with a special knowledge of or interest in works of art or curios.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • A wonderfully fluent technician, who moved in virtuosi circles, Lely recorded the worlds of politics and fashion alike, and sometimes revealed undoubted powers of character penetration.
    • In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries they were among the natural specimens collected by virtuosi, or amateur scientists, who kept their collections in specialized cabinets of curiosity.
    • Yet proverbs were objects of curiosity, collected on an encyclopedic scale by Italian virtuosi as well as other European scholars throughout the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
    • Bourgeois collectors began to play a part, and Mancini's treatise Considerazioni sulla pittura, addressed to the gentleman amateur, advised virtuosi on how to form a collection of paintings.
    • To be sure, the book has a good deal to say about how the curious - virtuosi, novelists, journalists, impertinent women, collectors, connoisseurs, and so on - were represented.

Derivatives

  • virtuosic

  • adjective ˌvəːtʃʊˈɒsɪkˌvərtʃuˈɑsɪk
    • Displaying or characterized by exceptional technical skill in music or another artistic pursuit.

      virtuosic guitar solos
      Example sentencesExamples
      • virtuosic ballet dancers
      • The symphony explores the extremes of virtuosic exertion, the limits of human endurance reaching for the impossible - so thrilling and satisfying to perform and listen to.
      • These recordings of Coleman's inspired, deeply expressive and virtuosic playing are what kept Irish traditional music alive in the early 20th century.
      • Quite simply, Miles was looking for a ‘blacker’ sound, for a less self-conscious and virtuosic approach than Coltrane's.

Origin

Early 17th century: from Italian, literally 'learned, skilful', from late Latin virtuosus (see virtuous).

Rhymes

arioso, bozo, Gozo, mafioso
 
 

Definition of virtuoso in US English:

virtuoso

nounˌvərCHəˈwōsōˌvərtʃəˈwoʊsoʊ
  • 1A person highly skilled in music or another artistic pursuit.

    a celebrated clarinet virtuoso
    as modifier virtuoso guitar playing
    Example sentencesExamples
    • All this music needs is a virtuoso with technique to burn and a grand array of tonal colors.
    • Puritan writers in New England were virtuosos of the genre.
    • He's an extraordinary fiddle player with a virtuoso technique married to musical mind that won't take anything for granted.
    • It also excludes music for virtuoso display in the large concert hall, even though only a few instruments may be involved.
    • Now the virtuoso guitarist/composer's classical roots are calling him back.
    • The work is a sophisticated, synoptic genre piece, its composition and bravura brushwork invoking forerunners from flashy late Mannerists to late Baroque virtuosos such as Crespi or Piazzetta.
    • Something else they share is that neither is recognised as a virtuoso showpiece for the pianist.
    • Such virtuoso, highly finished bronze groups can be seen as the last gasp of the great tradition of Florentine art.
    • However, there are so few viola concerti - especially by major composers - that virtuosi seemed driven to perform it anyway.
    • He joins the illustrious ranks of blind virtuosos, alongside renowned organists and other musicians who have triumphed against physical handicap.
    • Walker began his musical career as a virtuoso pianist, with composing and teaching work coming later.
    • It is not enough to see the painting as a virtuoso manipulation of historical styles.
    • With them, the concerto moves from the virtuoso star turn to distinguished collaboration.
    • Masters like Sorolla, Bouguereau, Zorn and Repin were painting virtuosos.
    • Johan becomes a virtuoso of classical music, a driving force who cannot be ignored.
    • The title makes obvious reference to basketball, a sport of virtuoso movement.
    • The next week they toured Europe with a Bartok third quartet that had virtuoso fiddlers agape with admiration.
    • Is it a study, which is unusual for copper, or an exercise in virtuoso brushwork, for which it seems unusually small?
    • The musicians from the Laureate trio staged a virtuoso performance at a concert marking the launching of their new album on Monday.
    • This virtuoso short story collection is emotionally uncompromising and stylistically daring.
    Synonyms
    genius, expert, master, master hand, artist, maestro, prodigy, marvel, adept, past master, specialist, skilled person, professional, doyen, authority, veteran
    skilful, expert, accomplished, masterly, master, consummate, proficient, talented, gifted, adept, adroit, dexterous, deft, able, good, competent, capable, efficient, experienced, professional, polished, well versed, smart, clever, artful, impressive, outstanding, exceptional, exceptionally good, magnificent, supreme, first-rate, first-class, fine, brilliant, excellent, dazzling, bravura
    1. 1.1 A person with a special knowledge of or interest in works of art or curios.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries they were among the natural specimens collected by virtuosi, or amateur scientists, who kept their collections in specialized cabinets of curiosity.
      • Yet proverbs were objects of curiosity, collected on an encyclopedic scale by Italian virtuosi as well as other European scholars throughout the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
      • A wonderfully fluent technician, who moved in virtuosi circles, Lely recorded the worlds of politics and fashion alike, and sometimes revealed undoubted powers of character penetration.
      • Bourgeois collectors began to play a part, and Mancini's treatise Considerazioni sulla pittura, addressed to the gentleman amateur, advised virtuosi on how to form a collection of paintings.
      • To be sure, the book has a good deal to say about how the curious - virtuosi, novelists, journalists, impertinent women, collectors, connoisseurs, and so on - were represented.

Origin

Early 17th century: from Italian, literally ‘learned, skillful’, from late Latin virtuosus (see virtuous).

 
 
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