FreeScrabbleDictionary

maven

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
10
Words With Friends
13
Letters
5
Pronunciation
/ˈmeɪvn̩/
See all 2 pronunciations
/ˈmeɪvn̩/ · /ˈmeɪv(ə)n/

Definition of maven

2 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. (US)An expert in a given field; also, a person who is interested in and knowledgeable about a particular activity or thing; an aficionado.
    “Connectors know people—lots of people. Mavens know about things. They know, or find out first, what is going on. Connectors, says [Malcolm] Gladwell, need mavens to tell them what to buzz about.”
    “Besides an executive sponsor, you need to find a technology maven, someone within the company who understands the new technology. A maven, as defined in Malcolm Gladwell's The Tipping Point, is a person who has both information and the social skills to pass it along. The challenge in a situation such as this one is that the maven might be outside of IT.”
    “The goal for any media company is to be a maven—and therefore highly adept at using multiple channels of social media communication well.”
See all 2 definitions

noun

  1. (US)An expert in a given field; also, a person who is interested in and knowledgeable about a particular activity or thing; an aficionado.
    “Connectors know people—lots of people. Mavens know about things. They know, or find out first, what is going on. Connectors, says [Malcolm] Gladwell, need mavens to tell them what to buzz about.”
    “Besides an executive sponsor, you need to find a technology maven, someone within the company who understands the new technology. A maven, as defined in Malcolm Gladwell's The Tipping Point, is a person who has both information and the social skills to pass it along. The challenge in a situation such as this one is that the maven might be outside of IT.”
    “The goal for any media company is to be a maven—and therefore highly adept at using multiple channels of social media communication well.”

name

  1. (abbreviation, acronym, alt-of)Acronym of Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution Mission, a space probe designed to investigate the Martian climate.

Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.

Etymology

From Yiddish מבֿין (meyvn, “connoisseur, expert, know-it-all”), from Hebrew מֵבִין (mevín, “one who understands, connoisseur, expert”), from הֵבִין (hevín, “to understand”). The word is said to have been popularized by its use in an advertising campaign for Vita Herring launched in the United States in 1964, which had a character called the “beloved [herring] maven” promoting the product.

Words you can make from maven

26 playable · top: NAVE (7 pts)

Best play nave 7 points

4-letter words

7 words

3-letter words

9 words

2-letter words

9 words

Hooks

1 extension · 1 back

A single letter you can add to maven to make another valid word.

Back

Find your best play with maven

See every word you can make from a set of letters that includes maven, or browse word lists you can mine for high-scoring plays.

Find more plays Browse word lists