2 definitions found

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

aficionado

noun

1: a fan of bull fighting

2: a serious devotee of some particular music genre or musical performer

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

73 Moby Thesaurus words for "aficionado": Maecenas, abettor, admirer, advocate, amateur, angel, apologist, attender, audience, authority, backer, buff, bug, champion, connoisseur, crank, critic, defender, dependence, devotee, dilettante, encourager, endorser, energumen, enthusiast, expert, exponent, fan, fanatic, fanatico, favorer, freak, frequenter, friend at court, habitue, haunter, infatuate, lover, lunatic fringe, mainstay, maintainer, monomaniac, nut, paranymph, partisan, patron, promoter, protagonist, pundit, reliance, savant, scholar, second, seconder, sectary, sider, specialist, spectator, sponsor, stalwart, standby, support, supporter, sustainer, sympathizer, technical expert, technician, theatergoer, upholder, visitor, votary, well-wisher, zealot

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