Usually means: Amateur engaging superficially in art.
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General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. dilettante: Merriam-Webster
  2. dilettante: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. dilettante: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. dilettante: Collins English Dictionary
  5. dilettante: Vocabulary.com
  6. Dilettante, dilettante: Wordnik
  7. dilettante: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. dilettante: Wiktionary
  9. dilettante: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. dilettante: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. dilettante: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. dilettante: Dictionary.com
  13. dilettante: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. dilettante: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Dilettante, The Dilettante: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Dilettante: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. dilettante: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. dilettante: Rhymezone
  19. Dilettante, dilettante: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. dilettante: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. dilettante: FreeDictionary.org
  22. dilettante: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  23. dilettante: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. dilettante: TheFreeDictionary.com
  25. dilettante: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. dilettante: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. dilettante: Encyclopedia

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Botanical Terms (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. dilettante: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  An amateur, someone who dabbles in a field out of casual interest rather than as a profession or serious interest.
noun:  (sometimes derogatory) A person with a general but superficial interest in any art or a branch of knowledge.
adjective:  Pertaining to or like a dilettante.

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