Amateur meaning

He continued racing for another year as an amateur. • American English: ˈæmətʃɜr, -tʃʊər/ • Arabic: هَاوٍ • Brazilian Portuguese: amador • Chinese: 业余爱好者 • Croatian: amater • Czech: amatér • Danish: amatør • Dutch: amateur • European Spanish: • Finnish: amatööri • French: • German: • Greek: ερασιτέχνης • Italian: • Japanese: アマチュア • Korean: • Norwegian: amatør • Polish: amator • European Portuguese: • Romanian: amator • Russian: любитель • Latin American Spanish: • Swedish: amatör • Thai: มือสมัครเล่น • Turkish: amatör • Ukrainian: любитель • Vietnamese: người nghiệp dư

Ah, February, the brief month of Cupid and Valentine, roses and and rom-coms, serenades and amateurs. Wait. What's amateur got to do with it? More than you may think. If love is on your mind, amateur should be, too. The word is more lovable than we give it credit for; in fact, if we were guided by history and etymology, we'd all be proud to wear amateur on our sleeves. Its first three letters are a clue that amateur comes from the Beginning Latin verb amare, "to love." ( Amo: I love. Amas: you love. Amat: He/she/it loves.) An amator in ancient Rome was a friend or lover; by the time the word migrated into English, around 1784, it had picked up not only a French suffix but also a new meaning: "someone who has a taste for an art or field of study, but does not practice it." That sense of amateur was neutral enough, but from then on the word began losing respect, becoming a synonym for a "dabbler" or "dilettante" — an unserious person who does nothing well. ( Dilettante tells a story similar to that of amateur: its Latin root means "delight.") By 1906, that famous cynic Ambrose Pierce would define amateur in his Devil's Dictionary as "a public nuisance who mistakes taste for skill, and confounds his ambition with his ability." The former journalist Edward Klein displayed his contempt for the 44th president of the United States by giving his 2012 book the title The Amateur: Barack Obama in the White House. But amateur is quirky. Its reputation isn't wholly bad — and lately the...

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" • Who lays down the rules for international amateur boxing? • An amateur shouldn't play roulette for high stakes. • Cent amateur and teach by correspondence form of two kinds of study. • The choir is now way beyond being an amateur community choir. • AIM : To compare the differences of muscle strength of shoulder joint between professionals and amateur sprinters. • He moulded a talented amateur into a brilliant actor. • Any amateur would be skinned alive competing against the world champion. • He made an amateur attempt to build a cupboard. • A professional golfer usually has it all over an amateur. • Most of the amateur teams were eliminated from the competition in the first round. • His success in amateur theatricals led him on to think he could tread the boards for a living. • He's no amateur in farming. • He is an amateur in boxing. • The amateur pianist made one or two false starts before finally playing the piece right through from the beginning. • Acting with an amateur theatrical group can be fun. • He has that je ne sais quoi that distinguishes a professional from an amateur. • Angela s...