maven
Pronunciations
maven | (MAY-vin) | listen |
Definitions
n. An expert, connoisseur, specialist.
Example Sentences
"She's a maven of the history of the synagogue."
"They think they're a maven in medicine because they live next door to a doctor."
"'I’m a maven, as my family used to say,' she said. (She also describes herself as a nice Jewish girl from Long Island: Lawrence High School, class of 1983.)" (source)
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Languages of Origin
- Textual Hebrew
- Yiddish
Etymology
Y מבֿין meyvn from TH מֵבִין mevín, lit. 'one who knows'
- Jews: Jews of diverse religious backgrounds and organizational involvements
- Non-Jews: (words that have spread outside of Jewish networks)
- North America
- Great Britain
- South Africa
- The New Joys of Yiddish, by Leo Rosten and Lawrence Bush (New York, 2003[1968]).
- The JPS Dictionary of Jewish Words, by Joyce Eisenberg and Ellen Scolnic, (Philadelphia, 2001).
- The Joys of Hebrew, by Lewis Glinert (New York, 1992).
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Alternative Spellings
meyvn, mayvin, meyvin, meyven, mayven, meiven, meivn
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