amateur: Meaning and Definition of

am•a•teur

1. a person who engages in a study, sport, or other activity for pleasure rather than for financial benefit or professional reasons. Cf. professional.
2. an athlete who has never competed for payment or for a monetary prize.
3. a person inexperienced or unskilled in a particular activity: Hunting lions is not for amateurs.
4. a person who admires something; devotee; fan: an amateur of the cinema.

1. characteristic of or engaged in by an amateur; nonprofessional: an amateur painter; amateur tennis.