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Enthusiast

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

n. One who is filled with enthusiasm; one who is ardently absorbed in an interest or pursuit: a baseball enthusiast.

n. A zealot; a fanatic.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

n. A person filled with or guided by enthusiasm.

n. A person exhibiting over-zealous religious fervour.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

n. One moved or actuated by enthusiasm; as: (a) One who imagines himself divinely inspired, or possessed of some special revelation; a religious madman; a fanatic. (b) One whose mind is wholly possessed and heated by what engages it; one who is influenced by a peculiar; fervor of mind; an ardent and imaginative person.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

n. One who imagines he has special or supernatural converse with God, or that he is divinely instructed or commissioned.

n. One who is given to or characterized by enthusiasm; one whose mind is excited and whose feelings are engrossed in devotion to a belief or a principle, or the pursuit of an object; one who is swayed to a great or an undue extent by emotion in regard to anything; a person of ardent zeal.

n. [capitalized] Eccles., one of the names given to a Euchite.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

n. an ardent and enthusiastic supporter of some person or activity

n. a person having a strong liking for something

Word Usage

"Model train enthusiast David K. Smith has built a miniscule train layout which works – the train travels in an ellipse, including through a “mountain.”"

Cross Reference

-phile

Synonym

Words with the same meaning

visionary fanatic devotee zealot geek

Same Context

Words that are found in similar contexts

fanatic scholar reformer dreamer devotee