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amateurship

amateurship noun: the quality or character of an amateur.

Noun

amateurship (usually uncountable, plural amateurships)

  1. (usually) The quality or character of an amateur.
    • This, perhaps, is the most valuable part of the collection to a student either in art or amateurship: but it would altogether shock our English taste, the modishest of any modern, which relishes nothing half so much as portraits of Right Honourables and Dishonourables […]1837, The Athenaeum, page 863

Forms of amateurship

pluralamateurships

Origin of amateurship

From amateur + -ship.

Questions about amateurship

What does amateurship mean?
Amateurship means the quality or character of an amateur.
What part of speech is amateurship?
Amateurship is a noun.
What is the plural of amateurship?
The plural of amateurship is amateurships.

Words near amateurship in the dictionary

  1. amateurizes
  2. amateurizing
  3. amateurland
  4. amateurly
  5. amateurs
  6. amateurship
  7. amateurships
  8. amateuse
  9. amateuses
  10. amathophobia
  11. Amati

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