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单词 aesthete
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Definition of aesthete in English:

aesthete

(US esthete)
noun ˈɛsθiːtˈiːsθiːtˈɛsˌθit
  • A person who is appreciative of and sensitive to art and beauty.

    审美家;唯美主义者

    Example sentencesExamples
    • And Derrida, like all Deconstructionists - and, in particular, French aesthetes, are expert at making rhetoric dance.
    • The aesthetes marvelled at his sureness of foot and quickness of hand.
    • If opera is an elitist, outmoded art form for high-brow aesthetes, then no one's told these kids.
    • In the 1920s and 30s it developed into a glamorous resort populated by rich aesthetes, dissident intellectuals and artists.
    • The aesthetes of New Eltham were not his only problem.
    • His pose was that of the dandy and the aesthete, emphatically not that of the angry young man.
    • The film had so much potential to please the aesthetes, to assuage the jangled nerves.
    • Her attitude is now certainly sadder, her descriptions more concrete, her approach less that of the aesthete.
    • He remains an aesthete, but his appreciation of culture is now spiritually empty.
    • For all the millions that the Londoners have splashed out, aesthetes find them a comparatively ugly side to watch.
    • The contempt of a fastidious aesthete would not defeat them: far sterner measures were necessary.
    • Charles's father, however, preferred business and sports and regretted that his son had turned out an aesthete and a poet.
    • Travelling aesthetes are too engaged with life to be bored.
    • Nor are we holier-than-thou aesthetes who can't manage more than a half lager without being sick in the taxi.
    • The most important point to make is that the aesthete and intellectual showed not the least reservation with flagrant melodrama.
    • He was a cultured aesthete who loved music, architecture, and philosophy, even corresponding at length with Voltaire.
    • Councillors they may be, aesthetes they are not!
    • And this is the condition of the decadent, of the aesthete, of the free-lover.
    • They are advanced aesthetes, located in community-based cultures.
    • SHE HAS always flattered - the eyes of the aesthetes - not to deceive, but to delight.
    Synonyms
    dandy, fop, beau, man about town, bright young thing, glamour boy, rake

Origin

Late 19th century: from Greek aisthētēs 'a person who perceives', or from aesthetic, on the pattern of the pair athlete, athletic.

Definition of aesthete in US English:

aesthete

(also esthete)
nounˈesˌTHētˈɛsˌθit
  • A person who has or affects to have a special appreciation of art and beauty.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • In the 1920s and 30s it developed into a glamorous resort populated by rich aesthetes, dissident intellectuals and artists.
    • His pose was that of the dandy and the aesthete, emphatically not that of the angry young man.
    • And Derrida, like all Deconstructionists - and, in particular, French aesthetes, are expert at making rhetoric dance.
    • If opera is an elitist, outmoded art form for high-brow aesthetes, then no one's told these kids.
    • He was a cultured aesthete who loved music, architecture, and philosophy, even corresponding at length with Voltaire.
    • Nor are we holier-than-thou aesthetes who can't manage more than a half lager without being sick in the taxi.
    • And this is the condition of the decadent, of the aesthete, of the free-lover.
    • The film had so much potential to please the aesthetes, to assuage the jangled nerves.
    • Her attitude is now certainly sadder, her descriptions more concrete, her approach less that of the aesthete.
    • Councillors they may be, aesthetes they are not!
    • Charles's father, however, preferred business and sports and regretted that his son had turned out an aesthete and a poet.
    • The most important point to make is that the aesthete and intellectual showed not the least reservation with flagrant melodrama.
    • He remains an aesthete, but his appreciation of culture is now spiritually empty.
    • The aesthetes of New Eltham were not his only problem.
    • The contempt of a fastidious aesthete would not defeat them: far sterner measures were necessary.
    • For all the millions that the Londoners have splashed out, aesthetes find them a comparatively ugly side to watch.
    • They are advanced aesthetes, located in community-based cultures.
    • The aesthetes marvelled at his sureness of foot and quickness of hand.
    • Travelling aesthetes are too engaged with life to be bored.
    • SHE HAS always flattered - the eyes of the aesthetes - not to deceive, but to delight.
    Synonyms
    dandy, fop, beau, man about town, bright young thing, glamour boy, rake

Origin

Late 19th century: from Greek aisthētēs ‘a person who perceives’, or from aesthetic, on the pattern of the pair athlete, athletic.

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