appreciator

English

Etymology

From appreciate +‎ -or.

Noun

appreciator (plural appreciators)

1. Someone who appreciates a given thing, especially:
   1. Someone who values something highly.
      • 1860, Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Culture”, in The Conduct of Life‎^[1], Boston: Ticknor and Fields, page 142:

        I find, too, that the chance for appreciation [of imaginative literature] is much increased by being the son of an appreciator, and that these boys who now grow up are caught not only years too late, but two or three births too late, to make the best scholars of.

      • 1993, Vikram Seth, A Suitable Boy‎^[2], New York: HarperCollins, page 448:

        […] I speak as an appreciator of not just the architecture but the way you have preserved its atmosphere,

   2. Someone who assesses or appraises the value of something.
      • 1779, William Thomson, Travels in Europe, Asia, and Africa‎^[3], London: J. Murray, published 1782, Letter 47, p. 120:

        Let no chicaning intermediate agent but suffered to pass between the manufacturers and the Company’s warehouse-keepers and sorters, except the sworn appreciators and examiners, according to standard samples, secreted from the view, and from every possible communication with the owners.

      • 1794, Review of The Age of Infidelity, in The English Review, Volume 24, p. 124,^[4]

        that respectable collector and appreciator of religious evidence, Archdeacon Paley

      • 1919 March 31, W[ilhelm] N[ero] P[ilate] Barbellion [pseudonym; Bruce Frederick Cummings], “[1915] March 4”, in The Journal of a Disappointed Man, London: Chatto & Windus, published 27 April 1920 (5th impression), →OCLC, part II (In London), pages 179–180:

        I like to keep myself well within the field of the microscope, and, with as much detachment as I can muster, to watch myself live, to report my observations of what I say, feel, think. In default of others, I am myself my own spectator and self-appreciator―critical, discerning, vigilant, fond!—my own stupid Boswell, shrewd if silly.

      • 1940, Richard Wright, Native Son‎^[5], New York: Harper and Row, published 1966, page xxxi:

        Always, as I wrote, I was both reader and writer, both the conceiver of the action and the appreciator of it.

Translations

one who fully appreciates or understands a given thing

• Finnish: arvostaja
• French: appréciateur (fr) m, appréciatrice (fr) f
• Italian: apprezzatore m, apprezzatrice f
• Portuguese: apreciador (pt) m, apreciadora f
• Russian: цени́тель (ru) m (cenítelʹ), цени́тельница (ru) f (cenítelʹnica)
• Spanish: apreciador (es) m, apreciadora (es) f
• Ukrainian: поціно́вувач m (pocinóvuvač), поціно́вувачка f (pocinóvuvačka)

one who assesses or appraises the value of something

• Finnish: arvioija (fi)