amateur vs beginner

amateur

noun
  • Someone who is unqualified or insufficiently skillful. 

  • A person attached to a particular pursuit, study, science, or art (such as music or painting), especially one who cultivates any study, interest, taste, or attachment without engaging in it professionally. 

adj
  • Showing a lack of professionalism, experience or talent. 

  • Non-professional. 

  • Created, done, or populated by amateurs or non-professionals. 

beginner

noun
  • Someone who is just starting at something, or has only recently started. 

  • Someone who sets something in motion. 

  • An actor who is present on stage in the first moments of a play. 

How often have the words amateur and beginner occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )