adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
an avid/voracious reader (= someone who eagerly reads a lot of books )
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She was an avid reader of historical novels.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
most
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And the sumptuous pictures will satisfy the most avid architectural enthusiast.
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It was recent history Goreng was most avid for.
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Not a city but a metropolis, with enough mazy back streets and alleys and passageways to satisfy the most avid intriguer.
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Even the most avid mycologists dislike being shot over a chanterelle.
■ NOUN
interest
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She took such an avid interest in all that her daughter was doing that it became stressful.
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Factors fueling the avid interest in e-commerce run the gamut of the business process.
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He took an avid interest in the school play, the debating society, the Grotonian literary magazine.
reader
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I am an avid reader of your magazine and eagerly look forward to each month's issue.
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Many become avid readers , work-out maniacs or bingo fanatics during the six months away from home.
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I have long been a avid reader of books about islands.
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But now she was an avid reader who liked nothing better than to haunt old bookstores.
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The library was a room which the Empress used constantly, for she was all her life an avid reader .
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Reagan was an avid reader of the conservative monthly Kuman Events, and frequently quoted from it at length.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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As a keen writer and avid newspaper reader, Jenny had always wanted to be a journalist.
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Tim's father is an avid collector of old blues and jazz records.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Factors fueling the avid interest in e-commerce run the gamut of the business process.
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He took avid notes as Father Campbell outlined the program for the week.
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His ballgame companion, Marge Locke, is just as avid a fan.
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His own father had been an avid ornithologist, so his aunt had told him.