Ăm'a-teur', n.

(ăm'a-tyr') (Synop., § 130), n. [Fr., from Lat. amator, lover; amare, to love.] A person attached to a particular pursuit, study, or science, as to music or painting; one who has a taste for the arts; especially, one who cultivates any study or art, from taste or attachment, without pursuing it professionally. Burke.