Amateur

Definition: Amateur

Amateur

Adjective

1. 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".

2. Lacking professional skill or expertise; "a very amateurish job"; "inexpert but conscientious efforts"; "an unskilled painting".

Noun

1. Someone who pursues a study or sport as a pastime.

2. Does not play for pay.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "amateur" was first used: 1784. (references)

Etymology: Amateur \Am`a*teur"\, noun. [French expression, from the Latin expression amator lover, from amare to love.]. (references)

Dream Interpretation

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Synonyms: Amateur

Bungler

Amateur, novice, greenhorn (learner).

Desire

Lover, amateur, votary, devotee, aspirant, solicitant, candidate, applicant, supplicant; cormorant.

Ignoramus

Greenhorn, amateur; (dupe); novice, tyro; (learner); numskull.

Learner

Noun: learner, scholar, student, pupil; apprentice, prentice, journeyman; articled clerk; beginner, tyro, amateur, rank amateur; abecedarian, alphabetarian; alumnus, eleve.

Taste

Man of taste; connoisseur, judge, critic, conoscente, virtuoso, amateur, dilettante, Aristarchus, Corinthian, arbiter elegantiarum, stagirite, euphemist.

Crosswords: Amateur

Afrikaan (amateur, dabbler, dilettante, fancier), Dutch (amateur, dabbler, dilettante, fancier), French (admirer, amateur, bird fancier, dabbler, dabster, fan, fancier, lover, non-professional, unprofessional), German (amateur, dabbler, dilettante, fancier), Spanish (amateur).

No, I'm an amateur. (Basic Instinct; writing credit: Joe Eszterhas)

Hunt people down to perform amateur dental surgery (Dark Angel; writing credit: Ben Aaronovitch; Mark Ezra)

Would it endanger your amateur standing if I asked you to use a sterilized needle (S.O.B.; writing credit: Blake Edwards)

You're a punk, a rank amateur, a costumed errand boy taking orders from a senile old man. (Batman Beyond: Return of the Joker; writing credit: Bob Kane; Paul Dini)

Definitely an amateur. (Empire Records; writing credit: Carol Heikkinen)

Amateur damager managin damagin mics (Feel Me Flow; performing artist: Naughty By Nature)

Every man reaps what he sows, except the amateur gardener. (references; author: unknown)

Sesenta minutos en el I Mundial de Boxeo Amateur (1974)

Amateur Hookers (1972)

Original Amateur Hour (1948)

Amateur Crook (1937)

Early Amateur Sound Film (1937)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• A Place of My Own: The Education of an Amateur Builder (reference)

• Arrowheads & Stone Artifacts: A Practical Guide for the Amateur Archaeologist (reference)

• Astrophotography for the Amateur (reference)

• How to Become a Porn Director: Making Amateur Adult Films (reference)

• How to Use a Computerized Telescope : Practical Amateur Astronomy Volume 1 (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• 73 Amateur Radio Today (reference)

• Amateur Baseball News (reference)

• Amateur Dancers (reference)

• Amateur De Cigare (reference)

• Amateur Film & Video Maker (reference)

  (more periodical examples)

Theater & Movies

• Amateur Nude Strippers: Vol. 1-4 (reference)

• Naughty Amateur Home Videos (reference)

• Penthouse Sexiest Amateur Video Centerfolds #2 (reference)

• Amateur (1982) (reference)

• Penthouse - Sexiest Amateur Video (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Amateur Hour (reference)

• Amateur Shortwave Radio (reference)

• The Amateur View (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech

• Amateur League Golf (reference)

• Amateur League Golf / Ski-Doo Team Racing (Jewel Case) (reference)

• BYTESIZE SOFTWARE Amateur Radio & Electronics Professional (Windows) (reference)

• TINKERS GUILD Scientific American: The Amateur Astronomer (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Six amateur astronomers will have a rare opportunity to use NASA'S Hubble Space Telescope to ... Credit: NASA.

Radical Quacks giving a New Constitution to John Bull.! / Designed by an Amateur Etch by G Cruikshank. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

Un Amateur / G. Hoffmann. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

Patent balancing by an amateur. Credit: Library of Congress.

Sullivan of the "Amateur Athletic Union" holding knife over "Thorpe" goat, while other goats, "Summer Ball Players," huddle together. Credit: Library of Congress.

Jerome D. Travers; with Havemeyer Cup, American Amateur Championship trophy. Credit: Library of Congress.

Farmer Giles & his wife shewing off their daughter Betty to their neighbours, on her return from school / Drawn by an amateur - etch'd by Js. Gillray. Credit: Library of Congress.

Start of an amateur boxing match, Rayne, Louisiana. Credit: Library of Congress.

Refreshments at the amateur program at the FSA (Farm Security Administration) mobile camp for migratory farm workers. At Odell, Oregon. Credit: Library of Congress.

Amateur championship game, Telling's Strollers vs. Hanna's Cleaners, Brookside Stadium, Sept. 20, 1914, attendance 100,000. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Business

It caters to all economic class levels, and is played by children as young as seven years old, and by amateur and professional players. (references)

It promotes physical education and encourages sports programs; league competitions and amateur sports, including training for international competition, in order to foster self-discipline, teamwork, and excellence in Filipino children. (references)

Civil Liberties

Comoros

Amateur radio licenses have been issued without hindrance in previous years. (references)

Economic History

Denmark

The democratization of cultural life promoted by the government's 1960s cultural policy recently has come to terms with the older "genteel culture;" broader concepts of culture now generally accepted include amateur and professional cultural, media, sports, and leisure-time activities. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Expressions using "amateur": amateur athletics ♦ amateur dramatics ♦ amateur flying ♦ amateur flying club ♦ amateur packet radio ♦ amateur performances ♦ amateur photographer ♦ amateur player ♦ amateur rules ♦ amateur status ♦ amateur theatricals ♦ amateur transmitter ♦ amateur work ♦ amateur wrestling ♦ like an amateur ♦ professional vs amateur ♦ radio amateur. Additional references.

Beginning with "amateur": amateur-built, amateur-champion, amateur-cum-renaissance, amateur-pickpocket-sort-of-manner, amateur-professional.

Ending with "amateur": all-amateur, ex-amateur, non-amateur, semi-amateur.

Containing "amateur": prince-cum-amateur-soldier.

Afrikaans

amateur (dabbler, dilettante, fancier). (various references)

Albanian

amator (amateurish, buff, dabbler, dilettante, enthusiast, fancier, lover, outsider), diletant (dabbler, dilettante). (various references)

Arabic 

‏هاو (amateurish, collector, dabbler, dabbling, devotee, fan, non-professional, unprofessional), ‏غير محترف (unprofessional), ‏الهاوي (dabbler, dabster, dilettante). (various references)

Bulgarian 

аматьорски, аматьор (gentleman), любителски (amateurish, inexpert, sandlot), любител (addict, connoisseur, dilettante, fancier, ham, hound, laic, lover, merchant, outsider), дилетантски (amateurish, dilettante), дилетант (dabbler, dilettante, sciolist). (various references)

Chinese 

爱好者, 業餘者 , 業余 (spare time), 愛好者 (enthusiast, fan, lover), 外行 (layman). (various references)

Czech

amatér (dabbler), ochotník, neodborník (layman), diletant (dilettante). (various references)

Danish

amatør (dabbler, dilettante, fancier). (various references)

Dutch

amateur (dabbler, dilettante, fancier), dilettant (dabbler, dilettante, fancier). (various references)

Esperanto

amatoro (fancier), nemetiulo, nemetiisto. (various references)

Farsi 

غیرحرفه ای (Unprofessional), اماتور (Unprofessional), دوستار, دوستدارهنر. (various references)

Finnish

amatööri, harrastelija (dilettante). (various references)

French

amateur. (various references)

German

Amateur (dabbler, dilettante, fancier). (various references)

Greek 

ερασιτέχνησ (dilettante, ham), ερασιτέχνης (dilettante), ερασιτεχνικός (amateurish). (various references)

Hebrew 

חובבן (dilettante). (various references)

Hungarian

amatõr, amatőr ember, amatôr (fancier). (various references)

Indonesian

amatir (dabbler), penyayang (charitable, lover, loving, merciful). (various references)

Italian

dilettante (dabbler, dilettante, fancier). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

門外漢 (layman, outsider), 素人 (novice), アマゾン川 (amateurism, Amazon River), アポ酵素 (apoenzyme). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

しろうと (novice), アマチュア , アマ , もんがいかん (layman, outsider). (various references)

Korean 

아마추어. (various references)

Manx

ancheirdagh (amateurish). (various references)

Papiamen

amatùr (fancier). (various references)

Pig Latin

amateuray.(various references)

Portuguese

amador (dabbler, dabster, dilettante, fancier, lover, unprofessional). (various references)

Romanian

amator (dabbler, dilettante, fancier, lover), diletant (dilettante). (various references)

Russian 

спортсмен-любитель, любитель любительский, любитель (aficionado, dabbler, dilettante, fancier, lover). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

amater. (various references)

Spanish

aficionado (amateurish, bushleague, dabbler, dilettante, fan, fancier, fond, keen, lover, non-professional, partial). (various references)

Swedish

amatör (fancier). (various references)

Turkish

amatör (dabbler, dilettante, fancier, hobbyist). (various references)

Turkmen 

цwrenje (novice). (various references)

Ukrainian

непрофесіонал (layman), аматор (admirer, dabbler), любительський (amateurish), любитель (admirer, dabbler, fancier, lover), дилетант (dabbler, dilettante, smatterer). (various references)

Vietnamese 

tài tử (amateurish, dilettante, dilettanti, dilettantish, non-professional, unprofessional), nghiệp dư (amateurish, non-professional, unprofessional), không chuyên (non-professional). (various references)

Welsh

amaturaidd, amatur. (various references)

amateur. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "amateur": amateurish, amateurishly, amateurishness, amateurishnesses, amateurism, amateurisms, amateurs. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Amateur" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: amaeture, amataur, Amate, amateor, amater, amateure, amati, amatuer, amatur, amature, Amaturen, ameatur, ameteur, ametuer, amiter, amituer, ammature, amuteur, aqmateur, armateur, Camaieux, Camataru, Damaturu, Majeur. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: aurate, mature, ramate, trauma.

-2 letters: armet, aurae, mater, muter, ramet, reata, tamer, urate.

-3 letters: area, arum, atma, aura, maar, mare, mart, mate, maut, meat, meta, mura, mure, mute, rate, ream, tame, tare, team, tear, term, tram, true, urea.

-4 letters: ama, amu, are, arm, art, ate, ear, eat, eau, emu, era, eta, mae, mar, mat.

-5 letters: aa.

+1 letter: ageratum, amateurs, armature, fumarate, maturate.

+2 letters: adumbrate, ageratums, argumenta, armatured, armatures, automaker, fumarates, hematuria, maturated, maturates, neuromata, tularemia.

+3 letters: adumbrated, adumbrates, amateurish, amateurism, automakers, dramaturge, extramural, hematurias, marquisate, masturbate, metacarpus, metatarsus, traumatise, traumatize, tularemias.

+4 letters: adumbrative, amateurisms, dramaturges, emasculator, manufacture, marquessate, marquisates, masturbated, masturbates, matriculate, perambulate, planetarium, portmanteau, seminatural, thaumaturge, traumatised, traumatises, traumatized, traumatizes, ultramarine.