Definitions
engaged in as a pastime
Word origin
Borrowed from French amateur, from Latin amātor (“lover”), from amāre (“to love”).
Used in a sentence
“he conducted extensive correspondence on wines with European suppliers, employing a wine vocabulary familiar to any modern amateur of wines.”
“The contest is only open to amateurs.”
“You see, I'm not an official in any sense so I can't plead privilege and invoke the powers to back me. In the eyes of a jury I should be merely an interfering amateur—and there's such a thing as defamation.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer2 curated clues
01“Hobby participant”7 letters
02“Unpaid player”7 letters
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