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lover (чего-либо; a person who enjoys or admires or has a special affection for something • an art-lover; He is a lover of sport; an animal-lover); amateur (a person who takes part in a sport etc. without being paid for it; someone who does something for the love of it and not for money • The tennis tournament was open only to amateurs; For an amateur, he was quite a good photographer); layman; fancier (чего-л.); outsider; nonpro; nonprofessional (о спортсмене); screen fan; smatterer; admirer (one who admires (someone or something) • He is an admirer of Mozart); antiquary; bum; cognoscente; rocker; antiquarian; conoscente; enthusiast (Ranoulph); devotee (Ranoulph); dabbler (AMATEUR, dilettante, non-professional, layman, layperson, tinkerer, potterer, trifler, dallier. -opposite(s): EXPERT, PROFESSIONAL. NOTD. Sunday painter, abecedarian, amateur, coquet, criticaster, dabster, dallier, dilettante, dunce, flirt, fool, fribble, grammaticaster, greenhorn, greeny, half scholar, ignoramus, illiterate, illiterati, know-nothing, lowbrow, middlebrow, no scholar, nonprofessional, philologaster, philosophaster, piddler, potterer, puddinghead, putterer, sciolist, smatterer, tenderfoot, trifler, tyro, unintelligentsia. Moby Thesaurus Alexander Demidov); ham; tinkerer (Artjaazz); hobbyist (Alex_Odeychuk); fancy; garage innovator (контекстуально dreamjam); afficionado (чего-либо ElectRadioactivEine); sciolist (george serebryakov); fan |
