dilettante

  • 21dilettante — dil|et|tan|te [ˌdılıˈtænti US ˈta:nti] n [Date: 1700 1800; : Italian; Origin: , present participle of dilettare to give pleasure to , from Latin delectare; DELIGHT2] someone who is not serious about what they are doing or does not study a subject …

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  • 22dilettante — [[t]dɪ̱lətæ̱nti, AM tɑːnt[/t]] dilettantes, dilettanti (plural) N COUNT (disapproval) You can use dilettante to talk about someone who seems interested in a subject, especially in art, but who does not really know very much about it. [FORMAL] …

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  • 23dilettante — noun (C) someone who seems or pretends to be interested in a subject but is not seriously interested and does not know very much about it dilettante adjective …

    Longman dictionary of contemporary English

  • 24dilettante — noun there is no room for the dilettante in this business Syn: dabbler, amateur, nonprofessional, nonspecialist, layman, layperson Ant: professional …

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  • 25Dilettante Press — is an independent book publisher, co founded by Jodi Wille, Nick Rubenstein, and Steven Nalepa in 1995. Dilettante is a publishing house dedicated to “challeng[ing] traditional notions of art and culture,” focusing its efforts on featuring… …

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  • 26Dilettante (album) — Dilettante Studio album by ALI PROJECT Released June 6, 2005 Label Tokuma Japan Communications ALI PROJECT …

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  • 27Dilettante Music — Contents 1 History 1.1 Digital Composer in Residence 2 Awards 3 External links 4 Notes …

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  • 28DILETTANTE — n. m. Mot emprunté de l’italien. Amateur passionné de la musique. Par extension, il signifie Amateur de peinture, de sculpture, connaisseur en tableaux, en objets d’art de toute sorte. Il désigne aussi, par extension, Celui qui s’occupe d’une… …

    Dictionnaire de l'Academie Francaise, 8eme edition (1935)

  • 29dilettante — dilettantish, dilettanteish, adj. /dil i tahnt , dil i tahnt , tahn tay, tan tee/, n., pl. dilettantes, dilettanti / tahn tee/, adj. n. 1. a person who takes up an art, activity, or subject merely for amusement, esp. in a desultory or superficial …

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  • 30dilettante — Synonyms and related words: Sunday painter, abecedarian, admirer, aesthete, aficionado, amateur, arbiter, arbiter elegantiarum, arbiter of taste, authority, bon vivant, booster, buff, cognoscente, collector, connaisseur, connoisseur, coquet,… …

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