amateurs
- 1Plural of amateur.
The tournament drew seasoned amateurs from across the region.
These observations were made by dedicated amateurs with backyard telescopes.
Note
A regular plural that carries every noun meaning of amateur: people who pursue music, painting or a science for love rather than pay, and, less kindly, people who lack the skill a job demands. Only the noun takes the -s. Used as an adjective, amateur stays unchanged, so the phrase is amateur astronomers, never amateurs astronomers. The older meaning, lovers of something, now belongs to archaic writing.
amateurs is a form of amateur
amateur, noun: A person devoted to a pursuit, study, or art, such as music or painting, who engages in it for pleasure rather than professionally. Full entry
- Forms
- amateuramateurs plural
- Spelling
- amateur → amateurs: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /z/.
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