hobbyist
pronunciation
How to pronounce hobbyist in British English:
UK [ˈhɒbiɪst]
How to pronounce hobbyist in American English:
US [ˈhɑbiɪst]
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- Noun:
- a person who pursues and activity in their spare time for pleasure
Word Origin
- hobbyist (n.)
- 1830, from hobby + -ist. Hobbyism is recorded from 1846.
Example
- 1. Much of the hobbyist drone technology comes from china , even now .
- 2. One biotech hobbyist claims to have created a weed resistant to roundup , america 's most popular herbicide .
- 3. The simple fact is that digital simply makes sense for the modern 35mm photographer and certainly for the weekend hobbyist .
- 4. That began to change in 1972 , when , in the pages of rolling stone magazine , he gathered together the descendants of midcentury military research on computing and the members of the emerging countercultural hobbyist community .
- 5. In june , microsoft expects to release a software development kit that makes it easier for any academic or hobbyist to build windows applications using the kinect 's camera and microphones .