Amateur
['æmətə;-tʃə;-tjʊə;,æmə'tɜː] or [ˈæmətər]
Definition
(noun.) someone who pursues a study or sport as a pastime.
(noun.) an athlete who does not play for pay.
(adj.) engaged in as a pastime; 'an amateur painter'; 'gained valuable experience in amateur theatricals'; 'recreational golfers'; 'reading matter that is both recreational and mentally stimulating'; 'unpaid extras in the documentary' .
Checker: Tessie--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) A person attached to a particular pursuit, study, or science as to music or painting; esp. one who cultivates any study or art, from taste or attachment, without pursuing it professionally.
Typist: Serena
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Virtuoso, CONNOISSEUR, DILETTANTE, critic, man of taste.
Typist: Rudy
Definition
n. one who cultivates a particular study or art for the love of it and not professionally: in general terms one who plays a game for pleasure as distinguished from a professional who plays for money—nearly every game has its special definition to meet its own requirements.—adjs. Amateur; Amateur′ish imperfect and defective as the work of an amateur rather than a professional hand.—adv. Amateur′ishly.—ns. Amateur′ishness; Amateur′ism Amateur′ship.
Checker: Peggy
Unserious Contents or Definition
To dream of seeing an amateur actor on the stage, denotes that you will see your hopes pleasantly and satisfactorily fulfilled. If they play a tragedy, evil will be disseminated through your happiness. If there is an indistinctness or distorted images in the dream, you are likely to meet with quick and decided defeat in some enterprise apart from your regular business.
Typed by Levi
Examples
- American youths to-day are given, if of a mechanical turn of mind, to amateur telegraphy or telephony, but seldom, if ever, have to make any part of the system constructed. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- The owner of the house, Mr. Tonkin, was an old friend of the Davy family, and very fond of Humphrey, but the amateur experiments were almost too much for him. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- It seems that the musket had been run over by a handcar, which slightly bent the long barrel, but not sufficiently for an amateur like Fox to notice. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- I named Sunday at two o'clock, and immediately handed over his note to Mr. Livius, the amateur play-writer, French horn-blower, lady-killer, &c. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- Some engineers have been tempted to call him a lucky amateur, a talented artist who happened to become interested in new methods of navigation. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- The reasoning is perilously like that of the gifted lady amateur who expects to achieve greatness by imitating the paint box and palette, oils and canvases of an artist. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- As in the Civil War the private cit izen had held his own with the professional soldier, so here the contribution of the amateur to the discussion was not to be despised. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- It was the queerest of rooms, fitted and furnished more like a luxurious amateur tap-room than anything else within the ken of Silas Wegg. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- The inventor has become a scientist and a mechanic, and no longer an amateur discoverer. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- It was only by trying begging as an amateur that I could get the facts upon which to base my articles. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- Only the pathetic amateur deludes himself into thinking that, if he presents the major and minor premise, the voter will automatically draw the conclusion on election day. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Now Crawley, from being only a brilliant amateur, had grown to be a consummate master of billiards. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Mr. Rochester is an amateur of the decided and eccentric: Grace is eccentric at least. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- Without doubt these amateur sappers had been working hard, for the trench was dug, the dynamite cartridges placed therein, and the hole filled up. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- One must have one's workshop, otherwise one never ceases to be an amateur. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Guitar and mandolin are agreeable instruments for amateurs, but are never used in orchestral music. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- Of course there were amateurs even in those early photographic days, but they were few and far between. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
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