Amateur: alternatives and connections

Not belonging to a profession; not done by, or proceeding from, professional men; contrary to professional usage.

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Not belonging to a profession; not done by, or proceeding from, professional men; contrary to professional usage.

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One who acts, or takes part in any affair; a doer.

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One who contended for a prize in the public games of ancient Greece or Rome.

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One who does; one performs or executes; one who is wont and ready to act; an actor; an agent.

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One who, or that which, works; a laborer; a performer; as, a worker in brass.

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A birdcatcher.

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One who dabbles.

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An admirer or lover of the fine arts; popularly, an amateur; especially, one who follows an art or a branch of knowledge, desultorily, or for amuseme…

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One who knows many things superficially; a pretender to science; a smatterer.

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In the style of an amateur; superficial or defective like the work of an amateur.

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In the style of an amateur; superficial or defective like the work of an amateur.

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In the style of an amateur; superficial or defective like the work of an amateur.

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Destitute of experience or of much experience.

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A Latin preposition signifying for, before, forth.

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A Latin preposition signifying for, before, forth.

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