单词 | esthete |
释义 | esthete (once / 53002 pages) n An esthete is someone with good artistic taste, a person who appreciates beauty. If you're an esthete you can easily spend an entire day wandering around an art museum. Esthetes tend to be especially sensitive to beautiful things and skilled at seeing the beauty in the world. If you're an esthete, you might carefully set the table with flowers and lovely plates every night before dinner — you might also spend hours admiring the color of the sky and the shape of the clouds. You can also spell it aesthete, from the Greek root aisthetes, "one who perceives." WORD FAMILYesthete: esthetes USAGE EXAMPLESInitially known simply as an esthete, Wilde hadn’t published much beyond some poems when he embarked on a lecture tour of the United States. Washington Post(Jan 20, 2016) But she was not there to be entertained with the vacillations of a minor Victorian esthete. Harper Lee, Go Set a Watchman: A Novel(2015) She carefully cultivated the appearance of an Esthete. Edwards, Albert, Comrade Yetta(2012) n one who professes great sensitivity to the beauty of art and nature Syn|Hyper aesthete cognoscente, connoisseur an expert able to appreciate a field; especially in the fine arts |
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