Definitions for amateur

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amateur am·a·teur

Spelling: [am-uh-choo r, -cher, -ter, am-uh- Amateur is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 169 anagrams from letters in amateur (aaemrtu).

Definitions for amateur

noun

1. a person who engages in a study, sport, or other activity for pleasure rather than for financial benefit or professional reasons. Compare professional.
2. an athlete who has never competed for payment or for a monetary prize.
3. a person inexperienced or unskilled in a particular activity:
4. a person who admires something; devotee; fan:

adjective

1. characteristic of or engaged in by an amateur; nonprofessional:

Origin of amateur

1775-85; French, Middle French Latin amātor lover, equivalent to amā- (stem of amāre to love) + -tor -tor, replaced by French -teur (Latin -tōr-, oblique stem of -tor)

Examples for amateur

That frequency is within the range used by amateur radio operators, so anyone can listen in.

Chicago provides crime reporters and amateur scanner-chasers with more grit and brutality than they can handle combined.

Today, though, professional and amateur historians can build counter-narratives that are hard to dismantle.

People who live by an art always understand it better than an amateur.

One of them had the appearance of an amateur, the other was an artist, an engraver.

Franklin went through life with the joyous inventiveness of the amateur.

Thankfully, the Coleman kids reached a Burger King, and Wahlberg and his amateur biker gang rode off.

Sharp did lots of school plays, which led to a role in amateur operetta, then professional pantomime.

An amateur, however, is carried away by his desire for results.

All of which seemed very fascinating to the amateur in adventure.