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hobbyist

Syllables: hob·by·istUK/ˈhɒb.ɪ.ɪst/US/ˈhɑb.i.ɪst/

hobbyist noun: a person who is interested in an activity or a subject as a hobby.

hobbyist: a person who is interested in an activity or a subject as a hobby
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Noun

hobbyist (plural hobbyists)

  1. A person who is interested in an activity or a subject as a hobby.
    • This computer magazine is targeted at both professionals and hobbyists.
    • [Letters will not be answered if addressed] to a lady who is so busy with his own verses, or a scholar with a Greek scholium, or a hobbyist with his hobby, or any many with his own schemes and projects however good and important they may be, that he feels no interest in the concerns of others.1829 April, Urbanus [pseudonym], “Minor Morals—Answering Letters”, in The Christian Observer, volume XXIX, number IV (328 overall), London: Printed by Ellerton and Henderson, […]; published by J[ohn]...
  2. (slang, sex work) A client in a girlfriend experience.
    • In other words, a hobbyist wants to feel special, like he is the provider's boyfriend. This interest in extra-sexual experiences by men who frequent prostitutes is well known (Stein 41; Bernstein 126).2016, Jeffrey R. Young, Commodification of Sexual Labor: The Contribution of Internet Communities to Prostitution Reform, Universal-Publishers, →ISBN, page 158

hobbyist meaning in Tamil, Arabic and Myanmar

hobbyist in Tamil

மகிழ்வினையாளன்

hobbyist in Arabic

person interested in an activity or subject as a hobby
هَاوٍ hāwin

hobbyist in Myanmar

person interested in an activity or subject as a hobby
ဝါသနာရှင် wasa.nahrang

Examples of hobbyist in a sentence

  • In summary, you would have to be an expert, not a beginning hobbyist, at the outset to understand and apply much of the beekeeping information available on the Internet.2011, Norman Gary, Honey Bee Hobbyist: The Care and Keeping of Bees, Fox Chapel Publishing, →ISBN, page 16:
  • Presently the skies are cluttered with drones—2.5 million of which were purchased in 2016 by American hobbyists and businesses.2018 February, Robert Draper, “They are Watching You—and Everything Else on the Planet: Technology and Our Increasing Demand for Security...

All 12 example sentences with hobbyist

Forms of hobbyist

pluralhobbyists

Plural of hobbyist: hobbyists

Origin of hobbyist

From hobby + -ist.

Words formed from hobbyist

Questions about hobbyist

What does hobbyist mean?
Hobbyist means a person who is interested in an activity or a subject as a hobby.
What is hobbyist in Tamil?
Hobbyist in Tamil is மகிழ்வினையாளன். See Hobbyist meaning in Tamil.
How do you use hobbyist in a sentence?
In summary, you would have to be an expert, not a beginning hobbyist, at the outset to understand and apply much of the beekeeping information available on the Internet.
What part of speech is hobbyist?
Hobbyist is a noun.
How do you pronounce hobbyist?
Hobbyist is pronounced /ˈhɒb.ɪ.ɪst/ (UK).
What is the plural of hobbyist?
The plural of hobbyist is hobbyists.

Words near hobbyist in the dictionary

  1. hobbyhorses
  2. hobbyhorsical
  3. hobbyhorsically
  4. hobbyism
  5. hobbyisms
  6. hobbyist
  7. hobbyistic
  8. hobbyists
  9. hobbyless
  10. hobbylike
  11. Hobbys

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: hobbyist (page history and authors); hobbyist (Tamil 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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