Usually means: Non-professional engaging in personal interest.
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We found 39 dictionaries that define the word amateur:

General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. amateur: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. amateur: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. amateur: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. amateur: Collins English Dictionary
  5. amateur: Vocabulary.com
  6. amateur: Wordnik
  7. amateur: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. amateur: Wiktionary
  9. amateur: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. amateur: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. amateur: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Amateur, amateur: Dictionary.com
  13. amateur: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. amateur: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Amateur (disambiguation), Amateur (film), Amateur: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Amateur: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. amateur: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. amateur: Rhymezone
  19. Amateur (m), amateur, amateur (-trice) (m/f), amateur (de): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. amateur: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. amateur: Free Dictionary
  22. amateur: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. amateur: Dictionary/thesaurus

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Technical Glossary of Theatre Terms (No longer online)

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. amateur: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. amateur: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. AMATEUR: Acronym Finder
  2. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Archaeology Wordsmith (No longer online)

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. amateur: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. amateur: Urban Dictionary

Sports (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Amateur: Chess Dictionary
  2. Amateur (rider): Gambling Glossary
  3. Hickok Sports Glossaries (No longer online)
  4. amateur: Golfer's Dictionary
  5. Amateur: Sports Definitions

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. PhotoNotes Dictionary of Film and Digital Photography (No longer online)

(Note: See amateurish as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (now rare) A lover of something.
noun:  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.
noun:  Someone who is unqualified or insufficiently skillful.
adjective:  Non-professional.
adjective:  Created, done, or populated by amateurs or non-professionals.
adjective:  Showing a lack of professionalism, experience or talent.

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