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発音

• IPA^(key): /ɪkˌstɹɔː(ɹ).dɪˈnɛː(ɹ)/

形容詞

extraordinaire (not comparable)

1. (postpositive) Extraordinary, remarkable, outstanding.
2. (postpositive) (of a person) Particularly skilled; unusually active; particularly successful.

   He was a dancer extraordinaire.

   Charlie Parker, saxophonist extraordinaire, released many records.

使用する際の注意点

• When used after a plural noun, the adjective is occasionally pluralized as extraordinaires like in French, so that (for example) both dancers extraordinaire and dancers extraordinaires can be found.

名詞

extraordinaire (uncountable)

1. Something particularly remarkable or outstanding.
   • 2012, Lonely Planet, Nicola Williams, Kerry Christiani, Lonely Planet Switzerland

     "The very best of Swiss dining in this essentially rural country is as much about experience as culinary extraordinaire."