Definition, Meaning, Synonyms & Anagrams | English word AMATEUR

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Definitions of AMATEUR

1. A person attached to a particular pursuit, study, science, or art (such as music or painting), especially one who cultivates any study, interest, taste, or attachment without engaging in it professionally.
2. Someone who is unqualified or insufficiently skillful.
3. Non-professional.
4. Created, done, or populated by amateurs or non-professionals.
5. Showing a lack of professionalism, experience or talent.
6. (nowrare) A lover of something.

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Examples of Using AMATEUR in a Sentence

• Amateur astronomy is a hobby where participants enjoy observing or imaging celestial objects in the sky using the unaided eye, binoculars, or telescopes.
• Historically, the amateur was considered to be the ideal balance between pure intent, open mind, and the interest or passion for a subject.
• Alarums and Excursions (A&E) is an amateur press association (APA) started in June 1975 by Lee Gold; publication continues to the present day.
• The history of baseball in the United States dates to the 19th century, when boys and amateur enthusiasts played a baseball-like game by their own informal rules using homemade equipment.
• It is the only football team coming from the lowest level of Italian football succeeding in climbing the whole amateur and professional pyramid until reaching Serie A for the first time in 2001-2002 and European competitions the year after.
• Rugby football, from which Canadian football developed, was first recorded in Canada in the early 1860s, Both the Canadian Football League (CFL), the sport's top professional league, and Football Canada, the governing body for amateur play, trace their roots to 1880 and the founding of the Canadian Rugby Football Union.
• Detective fiction is a subgenre of crime fiction and mystery fiction in which an investigator or a detective—whether professional, amateur or retired—investigates a crime, often murder.
• Michiel Daniel Overbeek, South African amateur astronomer and prolific variable star observers (1920–2001).
• Golden Heroes is a British superhero role-playing game that was originally written and published on an amateur basis in 1981, and then republished in a more complete and professional form by Games Workshop in 1984.
• The tradition is itself named after Gardner (1884–1964), a British civil servant and amateur scholar of magic.
• Gerald Brosseau Gardner (13 June 1884 – 12 February 1964), also known by the craft name Scire, was an English Wiccan, author, and amateur anthropologist and archaeologist.
• KA9Q, also called KA9Q NOS or simply NOS, was a popular early implementation of TCP/IP and associated protocols for amateur packet radio systems and smaller personal computers connected via serial lines.
• The 68HC11 devices are more powerful and more expensive than the 68HC08 microcontrollers and are used in automotive applications, barcode readers, hotel card key writers, amateur robotics, and various other embedded systems.
• With the help of speech trainer, Harry Burgess, he learned to manage a stammer and subsequently developed an interest in amateur theatricals, along with the Tomlinson family, including the young David Tomlinson.
• Although it entails elements of amateur wrestling and martial arts, including genuine displays of athleticism and physicality before a live audience, professional wrestling is distinguished by its scripted outcomes and emphasis on entertainment and showmanship.
• pseudoscience, amateur science, deviant or fraudulent science, bad science, junk science, pathological science, cargo cult science, and voodoo science.
• 25 packet includes the sender's amateur radio callsign, which satisfies the US FCC requirements for amateur radio station identification.
• In amateur radio, QRP operation refers to transmitting at reduced power while attempting to maximize one's effective range.
• They were particularly favoured in glee clubs, which combined amateur singing with regular drinking.
• Its radio signal was easily detectable by amateur radio operators, and the 65° orbital inclination made its flight path cover virtually the entire inhabited Earth.

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