amateur musician

collocation in English

meaningsofamateurandmusician

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amateur
adjective
uk
/ˈæm.ə.tər/us
/ˈæm.ə.tʃɚ/
taking part in an activity for pleasure, not as ...
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musician
noun[C]
uk
/mjuːˈzɪʃ.ən/us
/mjuːˈzɪʃ.ən/
someone who is skilled in playing music, usually as ...
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(Definition ofamateurandmusicianfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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The episode is a good example of the jealousy that an upper-class femaleamateurmusiciancould arouse in a male professional.
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His father, a property-owner and keenamateurmusician, composer and poet, died when his son was about ten years of age.
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Like many cultivated women of the time, she was anamateurmusicianand could play the piano.
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In his home he often heard the music of the old country performed by his father, anamateurmusician.
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His father was the head of a well-established wire-business and a keenamateurmusician.
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His mother was a piano teacher, and his father was a keenamateurmusician.
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A commission agent in business, he was anamateurmusicianand an exhibitor of roses.
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She was also anamateurmusicianand singer, and played the accordion contributing to her younger son's growing passion for music.
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His father was a civil servant and anamateurmusician.
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She read widely, did fine needle work and was anamateurmusician.
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In 1914 his father, anamateurmusician, bought him a harp in an antique shop.
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He was anamateurmusicianand an artist whose specialty was watercolor seascapes.
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Anamateurmusician, he sings in a men's choir, and he also likes to play golf and tennis.
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Like many of his contemporaries, he was taught musical theory by a priest, who was also anamateurmusician.
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He is also an avidamateurmusicianand choir leader.
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His father was a mailman, and his mother a talentedamateurmusician.
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My father was anamateurmusician, photographer and visual artist; and my grandfather was a master carpenter who made religious sculpture in his spare time.
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At the age of 5, she was taught a couple of piano chords by her father, who was anamateurmusicianwho played by ear.
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His father, a tailor by trade, was anamateurmusicianand planted the seed of love for music in his son.
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His father, being anamateurmusicianand conductor of a local choir, taught his son to play the piano.
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