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Definition: Enthusiast |
EnthusiastNoun1. An ardent and enthusiastic supporter of some person or activity. 2. A person having a strong liking for something. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "enthusiast" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1380. (references) |
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19th Century Satire | One who preaches four times as much as he believes and believes four times as much as a sane man ought to. Source: Foolish Dictionary, 1904. |
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Synonyms: EnthusiastSynonyms: fancier (n), partisan (n), partizan (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Activity | Housewife, busy bee; new brooms; sharp fellow, sharp blade; devotee, enthusiast, zealot, meddler, intermeddler, intriguer, busybody, pickthank; hummer, hustler, live man, rustler. |
Madman | Dreamer; rhapsodist, seer, highflier, enthusiast, fanatic, fanatico; exalte; knight errant, Don Quixote. |
Obstinacy | Mule; opinionist, opinionatist, opiniator, opinator; stickler, dogmatist; bigot; zealot, enthusiast, fanatic. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Enthusiast |
| English words defined with "enthusiast": balletomane ♦ Montanist ♦ punk, punk rocker ♦ Rapturist ♦ shutterbug ♦ Zealant. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "enthusiast": Doctor Slop ♦ hollised ♦ munchkin ♦ Redgauntlet. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "enthusiast": Zealant. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Enthusiast" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. German (enthusiast). |
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Screenplays | An enthusiast. (The Man Who Wasn't There; writing credit: Joel Coen; Ethan Coen) | |
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 | Peoria County, Illinois landowner is a conservation enthusiast, using many NRCS programs to enhance wildlife habitat on his farm and bringing school children on conservation farm tours every year. Credit: Bob Nichols. |  | Shorelines with developed areas, like this one in yuma, provide many recreational opportunities for the water enthusiast. Credit: Unknown. |
 | ATV enthusiast riding in the sand dunes. Credit: Kathy Leedom. |  | Autumn pastimes. Sooner or later some of these hold-up men are going to tackle a callisthenics [i.e. calisthenics] enthusiast --. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton | The prudent person may direct a state, but it is the enthusiast who regenerates or ruins it. |
Johann Friedrich Von Schiller | Opposition always enflames the enthusiast, never converts him. |
William Cowper | No wild enthusiast could rest, till half the world like him was possessed. |
William Mcfee | The world belongs to the enthusiast who keeps cool. |
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Business | The Filipino basketball enthusiast will forego everything to watch a basketball game on television. (references) | |
Nordelta, located in Tigre, was designed with the water sports enthusiast in mind and entails an investment of $500 million. (references) | ||
The difficulty in defining the distinction between products designed for the DIY or enthusiast market, and products for professional or trade use gives rise to conflicting estimates about the exact size of the total market. (references) | ||
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Enthusiast" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 95.55% of the time. "Enthusiast" is used about 292 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 95.55% | 279 | 17,495 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 3.08% | 9 | 117,287 |
| Noun (proper) | 1.03% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 0.34% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 292 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "enthusiast": cockfighting enthusiast. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "enthusiast": enthusiast-driven, enthusiast-for-books-about, enthusiast-orientated. | |
Ending with "enthusiast": emu-enthusiast, euro-enthusiast. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "enthusiast"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | entuziast (ardent, devotee, enthusiastic, fanatic, rah-rah), tifoz (buff, enthusiastic, fan, fanatic, keen, lover), amator (amateur, amateurish, buff, dabbler, dilettante, fancier, lover, outsider). (various references) | |
Arabic | متحمس (advocate, ardent, ardent supporter, eager, eagerly intent, ebullient, enthusiastic, fanatic, fanatical, fervent, fervid, fiery, hot, hothead, impassioned, keen, passionate, strenuous, warm, zealot, zealous), حماسي (ardent, eager, enthusiastic, fervent, warm, zealous), المفعم بالحماسة. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | възторжен почитател, ентусиаст (aficionado, fan). (various references) | |
Chinese | 迷 (bewilder, confused, crazy about, fan, lost), 热心者, 愛好者 (amateur, fan, lover). (various references) | |
Czech | nadšenec, fanda (fiend, freak). (various references) | |
Danish | modeljernbanebygger (model railway enthusiast, railway modeller). (various references) | |
Dutch | modelspoorwegbouwer (model railway enthusiast, railway modeller). (various references) | |
Farsi | مشتاق (Agog, Anxious, Avid, Desirous, Eager, Earnest, Enthusiastic, Fervid, Fond, Hippie, Hungry, Keen, Perfervid, Raring, Solicitous, Studious, Thirsty, Wilful, Wishful, Wistful), هواخواه (Devotee, Disciple, Votary, Zealous), علاقه مند (Enthusiastic). (various references) | |
Finnish | intoilija (zealot). (various references) | |
French | enthousiaste (enthuses, enthusiastic), serpenteau, passionné, fervent. (various references) | |
German | schwärmer (dreamer, gusher, gushers, hawkmoth, jumping jack, sentimentalist, utopians, visionary, zealot), liebhaber (aficionado, amateur, fancier, hobby, lover, paramour), enthusiast. (various references) | |
Greek | ενθουσιαστήσ, θιασώτησ (fan, partisan, votarist, votary). (various references) | |
Hebrew | מתל"ב (ecstatic, enthusiastic, zestful), ל"ב (animated, ardent, devotee, ebullient, enthusiastic, excited, fervent, fervid, fiery, impassioned, keen, zealous). (various references) | |
Hungarian | rajongója vminek (bug, devotee, nut), rajongó (admirer, buff, ecstatic, enraptured, fan, fanatic, fanatical, freak, groupie, infatuated). (various references) | |
Indonesian | penggemar (devotee, fans, habitue, lover), pecandu (addict, fan, habitue, opium addict). (various references) | |
Italian | entusiasta (crazy, enthusiastic, mad). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 熱狂者 , マトリックス力学 (enthusiasm, madeleine, mademoiselle, madonna, Madras, Madras check, Madrid, madrigal, mania, maniac, manicure, manierisme, manifesto, Manila, manipulate, manipulation, manipulator, Manitoba, manners, mannish, mannish look, manual, manual manipulator, manufacture, manuscript, matrix dynamics, minutia, muddler, mutton, sailor), 愛好者 (devotee, fan, one who loves something), 凝固まり (clot, coagulation, fanatic), オクタン価 (fantasy object for masturbation, geek, honor, love affair with colleague, masturbation, nerd, Occam, ocean space explorer, Oceania, octane value, octet, odometer, of course, off, off the record, offence, offense, offer, office, office automation, office computer, office girl, office lady, office wife, officer, official, official handicap, official record, off-season, offshore, offshore center, offshore fund, off-side, Ohio, Oklahoma, okra, OL, onanism, onion, onomatopoeia, onyx, opal, opinion, opinion leader, orchestra, Oscar, oscillograph, oscilloscope, Oslo, osmium, OSPER, ostracism, ostrich, ostrich policy, Othello, Ottawa, Oxford, oxtail, ozone, ozone hole, respectable person). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | マニアック (maniac), ねっきょうしゃ, "りかたまり (clot, coagulation, fanatic), オタク (geek, nerd), あい"うしゃ (devotee, fan, one who loves something). (various references) | |
Korean | 열광자. (various references) | |
Manx | ard-jeeaneyder. (various references) | |
Norwegian | entusiast. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | enthusiastay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | entusiasta (devotee, ebullient, enthusiastic, fan, heartwarming, obedientiary, rooter, votary, warm, zealous), aficionado (fan). (various references) | |
Romanian | entuziast (enthusiastic, gushing), pasionat (ardent, avid, eager, flaming, glowing, hot stuff, hot-blooded, impassioned, keen, maniac, passional, passionate, perfervid, tropical, warm). (various references) | |
Russian | энтузиаст (devotee, fan), восторженный человек. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | entuzijasta. (various references) | |
Spanish | entusiasta (addict, buff, ebullient, enthusiastic, fan, fiend, glowing, keen, nut, warm, zealous, zestful). (various references) | |
Swedish | entusiast (aficionado, buff, devotee, fan, fiend), eldsjäl, svärmare (dreamer, hawk moth, petard, squib, zealot). (various references) | |
Turkish | istekli kimse, hayran (admirer, devotee, fan, follower, hanger-on, idolater, lover), coşkun kimse, ateşli taraftar (votary). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | натхненний пророк, ентузіаст (bug, devotee, zealot), безтямний фанатик. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | người say mê (devotee, fan), người hăng hái, người có nhiệt tình. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "enthusiast": enthusiastic, enthusiastically, enthusiasts. (additional references) | |
Words containing "enthusiast": overenthusiastic, overenthusiastically, unenthusiastic, unenthusiastically. (additional references) | |
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"Enthusiast" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: enthusaist, enthusiats, enthusiest. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "enthusiast" (pronounced enthuw"zēa'st) |
| 3 | -a' s t | broadcast, bypassed, chloroplast, Colorfast, iconoclast, downcast, flabbergast, forecast, Holdfast, lightfast, newscast, outcast, outlast, overcast, rebroadcast, sandblast, simulcast, steadfast, superfast, telecast, typecast. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-h-i-n-s-s-t-t-u" | |
-2 letters: anthesis, antsiest, atheists, hastiest, hesitant, hiatuses, instates, nastiest, nutsiest, satinets, shanties, sheitans, sinuates, situates, staithes, sthenias, tautness, titaness, unstates. | |
-3 letters: ashiest, atheist, attunes, aunties, entasis, hastens, hausens, hessian, instate, issuant, nasties, nutates, satinet, sestina, shantis, sheitan, shiatsu, sinuate, sithens, situate, snathes, staithe, statues, sthenia, sustain, tanists, tansies, tautens, tetanus, theists, tisanes, tushies. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-h-i-n-s-s-t-t-u" | |
+1 letter: enthusiasts. | |
+2 letters: enthusiastic, unchastities. | |
+4 letters: unenthusiastic. | |
+5 letters: unsophisticated. | |
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