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Noun [Danish]

Head templates: {{head|da|noun form|g=c}} maven c
  1. definite singular of mave Tags: common-gender, definite, form-of, singular Form of: mave
    Sense id: en-maven-da-noun-Fj-dJ60- Categories (other): Danish entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 2 entries, Pages with entries

Noun [English]

IPA: /ˈmeɪvn̩/ [Received-Pronunciation], /ˈmeɪv(ə)n/ [General-American] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-maven.wav Forms: mavens [plural]
enPR: māvən [General-American] Rhymes: -eɪvən Etymology: From Yiddish מבֿין (meyvn, “connoisseur, expert, know-it-all”), from Hebrew מֵבִין (mevín, “one who understands, connoisseur, expert”), from הֵבִין (hevín, “to understand”). The word is said to have been popularized by its use in an advertising campaign for Vita Herring launched in the United States in 1964, which had a character called the “beloved [herring] maven” promoting the product. Etymology templates: {{bor|en|yi|מבֿין|t=connoisseur, expert, know-it-all|tr=meyvn}} Yiddish מבֿין (meyvn, “connoisseur, expert, know-it-all”), {{der|en|he|מֵבִין|t=one who understands, connoisseur, expert|tr=mevín}} Hebrew מֵבִין (mevín, “one who understands, connoisseur, expert”) Head templates: {{en-noun}} maven (plural mavens)
  1. (chiefly US) An expert in a given field; also, a person who is interested in and knowledgeable about a particular activity or thing; an aficionado. Tags: US Categories (topical): People Synonyms: cognoscente, connoisseur, skilled person, mavin, mayven, mayvin Derived forms: mavenhood, mavenry, webmaven Translations (expert in a given field — see also expert): خَبِير (ḵabīr) [masculine] (Arabic), sərraf (Azerbaijani), experto [masculine] (Catalan), experta [feminine] (Catalan), expert [masculine] (Czech), expertka [feminine] (Czech), odborník [masculine] (Czech), odbornice [feminine] (Czech), znalec [masculine] (Czech), znalkyně [feminine] (Czech), zelf-benoemde expert [masculine] (Dutch), zelf-benoemde specialist [masculine] (Dutch), asiantuntija (Finnish), ekspertti (Finnish), tuntija (Finnish), connaisseur [masculine] (French), connaisseuse [feminine] (French), spécialiste [feminine, masculine] (French), virtuose [feminine, masculine] (French), experto [masculine] (Galician), experta [feminine] (Galician), Experte [masculine] (German), Expertin [feminine] (German), Kenner [masculine] (German), Kennerin [feminine] (German), מבֿין (mevin) [masculine] (Hebrew), hóhem (Hungarian), szakértő (Hungarian), tudor (Hungarian), intenditore [masculine] (Italian), intenditrice [feminine] (Italian), ма́хер (máher) [masculine] (Macedonian), зна́лец (ználec) [masculine] (Macedonian), е́ксперт (ékspert) [masculine] (Macedonian), entendido [masculine] (Portuguese), entendida [feminine] (Portuguese), experto [masculine] (Portuguese), experta [feminine] (Portuguese), до́ка (dóka) [feminine, masculine] (Russian), экспе́рт (ekspért) [masculine] (Russian), специали́ст (specialíst) [masculine] (Russian), специали́стка (specialístka) [feminine] (Russian), знато́к (znatók) [masculine] (Russian), entendido [masculine] (Spanish), entendida [feminine] (Spanish), mütehassıs (Turkish), uzman (Turkish), מבֿין (meyvn) [masculine] (Yiddish)

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    }
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  "pos": "noun",
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          "name": "Pages with 2 entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
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}
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      "name": "head"
    }
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}

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    {
      "word": "mavenhood"
    },
    {
      "word": "mavenry"
    },
    {
      "word": "webmaven"
    }
  ],
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        "2": "yi",
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        "tr": "meyvn"
      },
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      "name": "bor"
    },
    {
      "args": {
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        "3": "מֵבִין",
        "t": "one who understands, connoisseur, expert",
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      },
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      "name": "der"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Yiddish מבֿין (meyvn, “connoisseur, expert, know-it-all”), from Hebrew מֵבִין (mevín, “one who understands, connoisseur, expert”), from הֵבִין (hevín, “to understand”). The word is said to have been popularized by its use in an advertising campaign for Vita Herring launched in the United States in 1964, which had a character called the “beloved [herring] maven” promoting the product.",
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      "args": {},
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          "word": "beginner"
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        "Terms with Arabic translations",
        "Terms with Azerbaijani translations",
        "Terms with Catalan translations",
        "Terms with Czech translations",
        "Terms with Dutch translations",
        "Terms with Finnish translations",
        "Terms with French translations",
        "Terms with Galician translations",
        "Terms with German translations",
        "Terms with Hebrew translations",
        "Terms with Hungarian translations",
        "Terms with Italian translations",
        "Terms with Macedonian translations",
        "Terms with Portuguese translations",
        "Terms with Russian translations",
        "Terms with Spanish translations",
        "Terms with Turkish translations",
        "Terms with Yiddish translations",
        "Yiddish terms with non-redundant manual transliterations",
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        {
          "ref": "2003, Joseph H. Boyett, Jimmie T. Boyett, “All You Need is Buzz”, in The Guru Guide to Marketing: A Concise Guide to the Best Ideas from Today’s Top Marketers, Hoboken, N.J.: John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 207:",
          "text": "Connectors know people—lots of people. Mavens know about things. They know, or find out first, what is going on. Connectors, says [Malcolm] Gladwell, need mavens to tell them what to buzz about.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2006 January 23, Virginia Robbins, “Opinion: Eight Steps to Leadership”, in Dan Tennant, editor, Computerworld: The Voice of IT Management, volume 40, number 4, Framingham, Mass.: Computerworld, Inc., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 19, column 2:",
          "text": "Besides an executive sponsor, you need to find a technology maven, someone within the company who understands the new technology. A maven, as defined in Malcolm Gladwell's The Tipping Point, is a person who has both information and the social skills to pass it along. The challenge in a situation such as this one is that the maven might be outside of IT.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2010, Rachel Davis Mersey, “Paying for It All”, in Can Journalism Be Saved?: Rediscovering America’s Appetite for News, Santa Barbara, Calif.: Praeger, ABC-CLIO, →ISBN, part 3 (A New Model of Journalism), page 118:",
          "text": "The goal for any media company is to be a maven—and therefore highly adept at using multiple channels of social media communication well.",
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        }
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        "An expert in a given field; also, a person who is interested in and knowledgeable about a particular activity or thing; an aficionado."
      ],
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          "expert#Noun"
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        [
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        ],
        [
          "person",
          "person#Noun"
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        [
          "interested",
          "interested#Adjective"
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        [
          "knowledgeable",
          "knowledgeable"
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        [
          "particular",
          "particular#Adjective"
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        [
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          "activity"
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        [
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          "thing"
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          "word": "cognoscente"
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        {
          "word": "connoisseur"
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          "word": "skilled person"
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        "Received-Pronunciation"
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      "tags": [
        "General-American"
      ]
    },
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      "ipa": "/ˈmeɪv(ə)n/",
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        "General-American"
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      "word": "mayvin"
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      "code": "ar",
      "lang": "Arabic",
      "roman": "ḵabīr",
      "sense": "expert in a given field — see also expert",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "خَبِير"
    },
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      "code": "az",
      "lang": "Azerbaijani",
      "sense": "expert in a given field — see also expert",
      "word": "sərraf"
    },
    {
      "code": "ca",
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "sense": "expert in a given field — see also expert",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "experto"
    },
    {
      "code": "ca",
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "sense": "expert in a given field — see also expert",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "experta"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "expert in a given field — see also expert",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "expert"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "expert in a given field — see also expert",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "expertka"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "expert in a given field — see also expert",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "odborník"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "expert in a given field — see also expert",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "odbornice"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "expert in a given field — see also expert",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "znalec"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "expert in a given field — see also expert",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "znalkyně"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "expert in a given field — see also expert",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "zelf-benoemde expert"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "expert in a given field — see also expert",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "zelf-benoemde specialist"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "expert in a given field — see also expert",
      "word": "asiantuntija"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "expert in a given field — see also expert",
      "word": "ekspertti"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "expert in a given field — see also expert",
      "word": "tuntija"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "expert in a given field — see also expert",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "connaisseur"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "expert in a given field — see also expert",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "connaisseuse"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "expert in a given field — see also expert",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "spécialiste"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "expert in a given field — see also expert",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "virtuose"
    },
    {
      "code": "gl",
      "lang": "Galician",
      "sense": "expert in a given field — see also expert",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "experto"
    },
    {
      "code": "gl",
      "lang": "Galician",
      "sense": "expert in a given field — see also expert",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "experta"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "expert in a given field — see also expert",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "Experte"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "expert in a given field — see also expert",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Expertin"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "expert in a given field — see also expert",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "Kenner"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "expert in a given field — see also expert",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Kennerin"
    },
    {
      "code": "he",
      "lang": "Hebrew",
      "roman": "mevin",
      "sense": "expert in a given field — see also expert",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "מבֿין"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "expert in a given field — see also expert",
      "word": "hóhem"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "expert in a given field — see also expert",
      "word": "szakértő"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "expert in a given field — see also expert",
      "word": "tudor"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "expert in a given field — see also expert",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "intenditore"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "expert in a given field — see also expert",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "intenditrice"
    },
    {
      "code": "mk",
      "lang": "Macedonian",
      "roman": "máher",
      "sense": "expert in a given field — see also expert",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "ма́хер"
    },
    {
      "code": "mk",
      "lang": "Macedonian",
      "roman": "ználec",
      "sense": "expert in a given field — see also expert",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "зна́лец"
    },
    {
      "code": "mk",
      "lang": "Macedonian",
      "roman": "ékspert",
      "sense": "expert in a given field — see also expert",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "е́ксперт"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "expert in a given field — see also expert",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "entendido"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "expert in a given field — see also expert",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "entendida"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "expert in a given field — see also expert",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "experto"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "expert in a given field — see also expert",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "experta"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "dóka",
      "sense": "expert in a given field — see also expert",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "до́ка"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "ekspért",
      "sense": "expert in a given field — see also expert",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "экспе́рт"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "specialíst",
      "sense": "expert in a given field — see also expert",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "специали́ст"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "specialístka",
      "sense": "expert in a given field — see also expert",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "специали́стка"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "znatók",
      "sense": "expert in a given field — see also expert",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "знато́к"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "expert in a given field — see also expert",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "entendido"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "expert in a given field — see also expert",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "entendida"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "expert in a given field — see also expert",
      "word": "mütehassıs"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "expert in a given field — see also expert",
      "word": "uzman"
    },
    {
      "code": "yi",
      "lang": "Yiddish",
      "roman": "meyvn",
      "sense": "expert in a given field — see also expert",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "מבֿין"
    }
  ],
  "word": "maven"
}

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