enthusiast
/ɪnˈθuːziˌæst/US/ənˈθuziˌɪst/
enthusiast noun: a person filled with or guided by enthusiasm.
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Noun
enthusiast (plural enthusiasts)
- A person filled with or guided by enthusiasm.
- But Charles Aubyn (for it was he) had, like most enthusiasts, overcalculated the influence of his eloquence; surprise had alone procured him a hearing, and the bold cavaliers around were little in the mood for a homily.1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter IV, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume III, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 28
- I would challenge any rock enthusiast to refrain from tapping his/her foot when listening to such music.2010, Niamh Nic Daeid, Fifty Years of Forensic Science: A Commentary
- Synonyms:
- aficionado, amateur, freak, power user, prosumer
- A person exhibiting over-zealous religious fervour.
enthusiast meaning in Tamil, Marathi, Urdu and Malayalam
enthusiast in Tamil
- ஆர்வலர், அபிமானி, ரசிகர், அபிமானம், ஆர்வமுள்ள, ஆர்வம்மிக்க
enthusiast in Marathi
- person filled with or guided by enthusiasm
- उत्साही utsāhī
enthusiast in Urdu
- جوشیلا, سرگرم
enthusiast in Malayalam
- മതഭ്രാന്തൻ, ഉത്സാഹശീലൻ, ആവേശഭരിതൻ
More languagesFewer languages
- enthusiast in Kannada
- ಹಿಂಬಾಲಕ, ಹುರುಪುಗ
- enthusiast in Persian
- شوریده šuride
- enthusiast in Myanmar
- ဝါသနာရှင် wasa.nahrang
Examples of enthusiast in a sentence
- Even the most plugged-in politics enthusiasts had a hard time understanding his oblique references.
- The flutter is part of the appeal for cassette enthusiasts.
- Underlying every Esperanto enthusiast is the Esperantist ideal that the world would be a better place if everyone could understand each other better.
Synonyms of enthusiast
Forms of enthusiast
| plural | enthusiasts |
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Origin of enthusiast
From Ancient Greek ἐνθουσιαστής (enthousiastḗs, “an enthusiast, a zealot”), from ἐνθουσιάζειν (enthousiázein, “(intransitive) be inspired or possessed by a god, be rapt, be in ecstasy, (transitive) inspire”): see enthusiasm.
Words formed from enthusiast
Questions about enthusiast
- What does enthusiast mean?
- Enthusiast means a person filled with or guided by enthusiasm.
- What is enthusiast in Tamil?
- Enthusiast in Tamil is ஆர்வலர், அபிமானி, ரசிகர். See Enthusiast meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is enthusiast?
- Enthusiast is a noun.
- How do you pronounce enthusiast?
- Enthusiast is pronounced /ɪnˈθuːziˌæst/ (UK).
- What is the plural of enthusiast?
- The plural of enthusiast is enthusiasts.
Words near enthusiast in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: enthusiast (page history and authors); enthusiast (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); enthusiast (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); enthusiast (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); enthusiast (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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