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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
enthusiast
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
outdoor
▪ The holiday was one I have always dreamed about and I would highly recommend the centre to any outdoor enthusiast.
▪ On weekends the Hub buzzes with fellow mountain bikers and outdoor enthusiasts resting and socializing.
young
▪ There were the young scuba diving enthusiasts from the Miyako diving school.
■ NOUN
aviation
▪ Everyone there was an aviation enthusiast - they either flew or wanted to fly.
▪ Read in studio Aviation enthusiasts are calling for a memorial to be built on a hillside where a wartime pilot crashed.
▪ Heraldry is a fascinating subject, one to which aviation enthusiasts are naturally drawn.
outdoors
▪ Although Paisley is small, there is plenty to do within walking distance of the inn for outdoors enthusiasts.
railway
▪ Read in studio Railway enthusiasts are queueing up for a nostalgic trip on a steam train.
▪ Yet railway enthusiasts do not know exactly which month it opened.
▪ On Sunday the railway enthusiasts move in.
▪ To the railway enthusiast, however, it was the location of a crack Southern Railway and Southern Region steam depot.
▪ The railway enthusiasts have spent six months and £5,000 repairing the Peckett Locomotive in time for the start of the steam weekends.
▪ Read in studio A lifelong railway enthusiast has been celebrating his perfect birthday.
▪ From there he told Wesley Smith about his life as a railway enthusiast, composer and rock climber.
▪ The walk was started by T.V. star Fred Wedlock who is himself a railway enthusiast.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
Enthusiasts are willing to pay up to $12,000 for an original copy of the book.
▪ a sports enthusiast
▪ Golf enthusiasts will be able to see the tournament live on TV.
▪ The exhibition will be of interest to classic car owners and other motoring enthusiasts.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Dennis was a genuine enthusiast for financial matters.
▪ It has cards for Star Trek enthusiasts and fans of Frank Sinatra.
▪ Need a list of single male camping enthusiasts who live in high-income areas and read poetry?
▪ The first method is probably the easiest for the do-it-yourself enthusiast.
▪ The whole package is well worthwhile for the enthusiast.
▪ There were the young scuba diving enthusiasts from the Miyako diving school.
▪ This book is a must for both enthusiasts of aviation art and aircraft.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Enthusiast

Enthusiast \En*thu"si*ast\, n. [Gr. ?: cf. F. enthousiaste.] One moved or actuated by enthusiasm; as:

  1. One who imagines himself divinely inspired, or possessed of some special revelation; a religious madman; a fanatic.

  2. One whose mind is wholly possessed and heated by what engages it; one who is influenced by a peculiar; fervor of mind; an ardent and imaginative person.

    Enthusiasts soon understand each other.
    --W. Irving.

    Syn: Visionary; fanatic; devotee; zealot.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
enthusiast

1560s, pejorative, "one who believes himself possessed of divine revelations or special communication from God," from Greek enthousiastes "a person inspired," from enthousiazein (see enthusiasm). General sense (not always entirely pejorative) is from mid-18c.

Wiktionary
enthusiast

n. 1 A person filled with or guided by enthusiasm. 2 (context archaic English) A person exhibiting over-zealous religious fervour.

WordNet
enthusiast
  1. n. an ardent and enthusiastic supporter of some person or activity [syn: partisan, partizan]

  2. a person having a strong liking for something [syn: fancier]

Usage examples of "enthusiast".

The one below, with honey, was created for this book by ice cream enthusiast and friend Mimi Luebbermann, who suggests serving it with toasted almonds and chocolate sauce.

Sects and Professions in Religion are numerous and successive - General effect of false Zeal - Deists - Fanatical Idea of Church Reformers - The Church of Rome - Baptists - Swedenborgians - Univerbalists - Jews - Methodists of two Kinds: Calvinistic and Arminian - The Preaching of a Calvinistic Enthusiast - His contempt of Learning - Dislike to sound Morality: why - His Ideas of Conversion - His Success and Pretensions to Humility.

Mosby of the lines he had learnt so recently in his role of Arthurian enthusiast.

I was now frequenting the athenaeum reading rooms, where the very same loquacious gentleman whom I had encountered before, the mysterious Poe enthusiast, continued his regular appearances, reading the newspapers and gushing over the inept articles appearing in print on Edgar Poe.

Geli knows a friend of a friend who stays out on a farm in the Goldene Aue, a ballooning enthusiast named Schnorp, who is heading toward Berlin.

In the temple of Mecca, three Charegites or enthusiasts discoursed of the disorders of the church and state: they soon agreed, that the deaths of Ali, of Moawiyah, and of his friend Amrou, the viceroy of Egypt, would restore the peace and unity of religion.

In a mean and sordid society, he was an enthusiast for the acquisition of knowledge, and while his passion for physiology induced--as it so often does--an indifference regarding the infliction of pain, his pitiless vivisections were not more cruel than experiments made in this twentieth century, and some of them by men of national reputation.

At the end of each coming century, and for many centuries, no one can foresay how many, millions on millions in the Americas and in Europe will unite in rendering tribute of praise to the enthusiast and adventurer whose limited ambitions for himself were never realized, but who opened to mankind the opportunity to found states freed from the domination of the church and churches freed from the domination of the state.

Some of the enthusiasts seeking to meet me were seeking to meet what they properly considered a Far Journeyer, but a great many wished to meet a man they mistakenly considered Un Grand Romancier, author of an imaginative and entertaining fiction, and others clearly wished only to ogle a Prodigious Liar, as they might have flocked to watch the frusta of some eminent criminal at the piazzetta pillars.

Rhyssa watched the reactions of her two gardening enthusiasts and smiled.

Enthusiasts discovering individual trees which have made prodigious growth, or even fairly extensive stands on fertile soil with heavy rainfall, will compute sawlog yields at 40 or 50 years which are much too optimistic for general application.

But buses, cars, and trains had carried thousands of enthusiasts to Granby and Magog and St.

Staring dumbly out at the toiling sweltering human ant-hill Comus marvelled how missionary enthusiasts could labour hopefully at the work of transplanting their religion, with its homegrown accretions of fatherly parochial benevolence, in this heat-blistered, feverscourged wilderness, where men lived like groundbait and died like flies.

Amid these careless warders glided the puny form of a little old Turk, poorly dressed like a marabout or santon of the desert--a sort of enthusiasts, who sometimes ventured into the camp of the Crusaders, though treated always with contumely, and often with violence.

Willie Walker in the front seat with a veteran triggerman named Bonelli and a younger wheelman who was called Tommy Edsel because of his one-time membership in a club of Edsel automobile enthusiasts.