Definitions for hobby

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hobby hob·by

Spelling: [hob-ee]

IPA: /ˈhɒb i/

Hobby is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 15 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 25 anagrams from letters in hobby (bbhoy).

Definitions for hobby

noun

1. an activity or interest pursued for pleasure or relaxation and not as a main occupation:
2. a child's hobbyhorse.
3. Archaic. a small horse.
4. a small Old World falcon, Falco subbuteo, formerly flown at such small game as larks.
5. Oveta Culp [kuhlp] /kʌlp/ (Show IPA), 1905–1995, U.S. newspaper publisher and government official: first director of Women's Army Corps 1942–45; first Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare 1953–55.

Idioms

1. ride a hobby, to concern oneself excessively with a favorite notion or activity. Also, ride a hobbyhorse.

Origin of hobby

1325-75; Middle English hoby(n), probably for Robin, or Robert (cf. hob²), used as horse's name, as in dobbin

Examples for hobby

While the hobby Lobby decision may have lost its cultural appeal, it still carries weight in the federal court system.

Is it to be a commercial union, this hobby of your minister here?

Remember, corporations have religious consciences now, thanks to hobby Lobby.

But her interest in his hobby for once failed to awaken his enthusiasm.

She mentions it to everybody; it's a sort of hobby of hers, like my humble self, and the roses.

They are for corporations like hobby Lobby, and vast hospital networks, and, yes, adoption agencies.

In the wake of hobby Lobby, activist lawyers are getting busy too.

On March 25, I stood in line outside the Supreme Court, waiting to get into the hobby Lobby oral argument.

My two years at lectures had not been passed in vain, and surgery had been my hobby.

"Because the solution of such matters is a hobby of his," Wrayson answered.