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enthusiasts

enthusiasts is the plural of enthusiast.

Meaning of enthusiast

Noun

enthusiast (plural enthusiasts)

  1. 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
  2. (archaic) A person exhibiting over-zealous religious fervour.

Questions about enthusiasts

What is enthusiasts the plural of?
Enthusiasts is the plural of enthusiast.

Words near enthusiasts in the dictionary

  1. enthusiastical
  2. enthusiastically
  3. enthusiastick
  4. enthusiasticke
  5. enthusiastly
  6. enthusiasts
  7. enthusing
  8. enthymema
  9. enthymemas
  10. enthymematic
  11. enthymematical

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Adapted from Wiktionary: enthusiasts (page history and authors); enthusiast (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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