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Look up: amateur

  1. Amateur
    One who rides or drives for the love of the sport and not as a profession or for profit.
    Found on http://www.fmha.net/Talk.html

  2. amateur
    [adj] - engaged in as a pastime 2. [n] - does not play for pay 3. [n] - someone who pursues a study or sport as a pastime
    Found on http://www.webdictionary.co.uk/definitio

  3. Amateur
    Am`a·teur' noun [ French, from Latin amator lover, from amare to love.] A person attached to a particular pursuit, study, or science as to music or painting; esp. one who cultivates any study or art, from taste or attachment, without pursuing it professionally.
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/A/66

  4. amateur
    recreational adjective 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`
    Found on http://wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?

  5. amateur
    noun someone who pursues a study or sport as a pastime
    Found on http://wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?

  6. Amateur
    • (n.) A person attached to a particular pursuit, study, or science as to music or painting; esp. one who cultivates any study or art, from taste or attachment, without pursuing it professionally.
    Found on http://thinkexist.com/dictionary/meaning

  7. amateur
    1. someone who pursues a study or sport as a pastime
    2. does not play for pay

    Found on

  8. amateur
    amateur, in sports, one who engages in athletic competition without material recompense. Upper-class Englishmen in the 19th cent. used the concept to help define their social status, first applying the term to sportsmen who did not need to work with their hands as livelihood, later using it to descr...
    Found on http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/sports/A08


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