How do you pronounce connoisseur?

The recorded pronunciation is /ˌkɑnəˈsɝ/.

connoisseur

/ˌkɑnəˈsɝ/

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Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.89 in modern English

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"beer connoisseur"
"chocolate connoisseur"
"wine connoisseur"
"It is evident, in spite of his frequent attention to her while she draws, that in fact he knows nothing of the matter. He admires as a lover, not as a connoisseur."
"No; nonsense, Naumann! English ladies are not at everybody’s service as models. And you want to express too much with your painting. You would only have made a better or worse portrait with a background which every connoisseur would give a different reason for or against."
"This, when it was brought to him, he drank slowly, like a connoisseur, lingering on the taste and still looking about him at the cliffs and up at our signboard."

Etymology tree Latin cognōscens, cognōscentem French connaiss(ant) Proto-Indo-European *-tōr Proto-Italic *-tōr Latin -(ā)tōrem Old French -or Middle French -eur French -eur French connoisseurbor. English connoisseur Around 1705–1715, from French connoisseur, from the verb connoître (obsolete pre-1835 spelling of connaître (“to know”)).

connoisseurs (plural) connaisseur (alternative)

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