English abbreviation dictionary - avid
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Avid
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~ adj avid reader/listener/fan etc someone who does something, listens to something etc as much as they can (an avid collector of old jazz records) ...Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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1. You use avid to describe someone who is very enthusiastic about something that they do. He misses not having enough books because he’s an avid reader. ADJ: usu ADJ n • avidly Thank you for a most entertaining magazine, which I read avidly each month. ADV: ADV with v 2. If you say that someone is avid for something, you mean that they are very eager to get it. He was intensely eager, indeed avid, for wealth. ADJ: v-link ADJ, usu ADJ for n • avidly Western suppliers too are competing avidly for business abroad. ADV: ADV with v ...Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
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adjective Etymology: French or Latin; French ~e, from Latin ~us, from avere to desire, crave; akin to Welsh ewyllys desire, Old Irish con-oi he protects Date: 1769 1. desirous to the point of greed ; urgently eager ; greedy ~ for publicity 2. characterized by enthusiasm and vigorous pursuit ~ readers Synonyms: see eager • ~ly adverb • ~ness noun ...Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary
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adj. (usu. foll. by of, for) eager, greedy. Derivatives avidity n. avidly adv. Etymology: F avide or L avidus f. avere crave ...Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference
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1. алчный, жадный an avid reader —- человек, читающий запоем 2. (of, for) алчущий, жаждущий (чего-л.) avid of power —- жаждущий власти avid for praise —- ищущий похвал ...Новый большой англо-русский словарь
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- 1769, from L. avidus, from avere "desire eagerly." Also in part a back-formation from avidity (1449), from M.Fr. aviditй, from L. aviditatem, from avidus. ...Английский Этимологический словарь
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