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Enthusiasts
-aholic
-oholic
aficionado
anorak
armchair
audiophile
DIYer
eager beaver
faddist
fan favourite
fanatic
nerd
numismatist
otaku
people watcher
turophile
ultra
watcher
Whovian
zealot

enthusiast | American Dictionary

enthusiast
noun[ C ]
us/ɪnˈθu·ziˌæst, -əst/
someone who is very interested in and involved with a particular subject or activity:
a computer-games enthusiast

Examples of enthusiast

enthusiast
The results show that the ' culture enthusiasts' and the 'sophisticated choosers' enjoyed the highest life satisfaction (with no significant difference between them).
This book bridges the worlds of the transport enthusiast, the historian and the interested general reader.
This implies that appeals by political leaders are unlikely to change the minds of most hard news enthusiasts.
Like jazz enthusiasts, swing fans knew their heroes through records only.
The enthusiasts, who claimed to prophesy and to have direct divine inspiration, were increasingly seen in the seventeenth century as melancholies.
By mediating between man and nature, the microscope and other adjuvant technologies undercut the foundations of the enthusiasts' beliefs.
Here eighteen chapters, written by many of the leading experts (and enthusiasts), bring the topic of predation back into focus and also firmly up-to-date.
But for all those polar enthusiasts who have yet to make a purchase, the second edition is very highly recommended.
Elvis enthusiasts from social environments that strongly encourage traditional masculine norms may avoid doing anything that questions their identity.
Most of these well-intended ventures were unsuccessful, the enthusiasts underestimating housing's high cost to produce and maintain it, and sometimes misinterpreting demand by the poor.
At the same time, work on humanoids has been almost considered as mere enthusiast's concern.
And the goal of bringing the corpus into the language-teaching classroom (though vigorously pursued by a small group of enthusiasts) remains as elusive as ever.
He was supported in this view by other interested enthusiasts.
There is little for the enthusiast, political animal, practitioner, or scholar.
Another approach was to refer to genealogies re-created by historians and enthusiasts.
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Collocations withenthusiast

enthusiast

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art enthusiast
He characterizes himself by his activeness (a continuous reminder of his physical state) and identity as an art enthusiast and writer.
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