Noun

(en noun)

A lover (of) something.

* 2006 , John Hailman, Thomas Jefferson on Wine , University of Mississippi 2006, p. x:

he conducted extensive correspondence on wines with European suppliers, employing a wine vocabulary familiar to any modern amateur of wines.

A person attached to a particular pursuit, study, or science as to music or painting; especially one who cultivates any study or art, from taste or attachment, without pursuing it professionally.

She is an accomplished amateur woodworker.

Someone who is unqualified or insufficiently skillful.

The entire thing was built by some amateurs with screwdrivers and plywood.

Noun

(en noun)

A magazine, normally produced by amateurs, intended for people who share a common interest

* {{quote-magazine

, year = 1950 , date = September , first = Francis Towner , last = Laney , authorlink = , title = Syllabus for a Fanzine , magazine = Spacewarp , url = http://www.fanac.org/fanzines/Spacewarp/Spacewarp42-08.html , issue = 42 , page = 8 , passage = I don't know how many fanzines there've been, but surely no fewer than 500 different items, some running for one issue and some for several dozen. }}

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, year = 1959 , author = & Ron Ellik (as Carl Brandon) , title = The BNF of Iz , chapter = The Tin Woodsfan , url = http://www.fanac.org/fanzines/BNF_of_IZ/BNF_of_IZ-04.html , passage = "Well, long ago," said the Tin Woodsfan, "a fan and I were feuding, and the fan decided to drive me out of fandom. But no one can leave Iz because of the great burning desert called Public Contempt which surrounds this fannish land, and since nobody ever gafiates while still inside the country, he had to cast a spell of immobility upon me. One day when I was chopping wood to make paper for my fanzine , he cast his spell, and there I've been until you came along." }}

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, year = 1988 , first = Sharyn , last = McCrumb , authorlink = Sharyn McCrumb , title = , page = 9 , isbn = 9780345483027 , passage = Maybe a few dozen hours of collective neofans, all reading him fanzine press at once, would cure him of these paternal instincts. }}

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, year = 2013 , title = Continuum Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World , isbn = 9780826463210 , volume = 1 , page = 227 , section = Fanzines , passage = The US jazz magazine Coda began in 1958 as a 12-page mimeographed fanzine , put together by its editor and a team of volunteers working for beer and pizza. }}