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By your definition, of course.

And what definition would that be?

Your definition -- which you think somehow excludes amillenialists like Kim Riddlebarger. Here from Kim Riddlebarger's Blog:

I have written on this matter in my book A Case for Amillennialism. Here is a section which deals with your question (taken from pages 168-173)

In verse 15 of the Olivet Discourse, Jesus answers the disciple’s original question about the destruction of the temple, “when will these things happen?” ... Jesus now speaks of a period of great tribulation unsurpassed throughout the history of Israel. Dispensational writers argue that this passage must be interpreted in light of Daniel 9:27, which is assigned to a future seven-year tribulation period. If true, Jesus is here speaking of some distant future event yet to come. According to John Walvoord, “Christ was not talking here about fulfillment in the first century, but prophecy to be related to His actual second coming to the earth in the future.”

But there are good reasons to think that Jesus is speaking about the events of A.D. 70 .... [blah ... blah ... blah]

And that statement is different from Preterism how???? Preterists and Amillenialists and Replacement Theologians all drink from the same well despite their pretenses to the contrary.

Your definition -- which you think somehow excludes amillenialists like Kim Riddlebarger. Here from Kim Riddlebarger's Blog:

You are confused, so let me help you clear things up.

Amil and preterist are orthogonal to one another. The sets are (amil, postmil, premil,dispensational) and (preterist, historicist, futurist, idealist). One can be a preterist postmil or a preterist amil or even preterist premil. The only thing one cannot be is a preterist or historicist dispensationalist. (Dispensationalism require an association with futurism.)

Riddlebarger is a historicist amil who happens to interpret a portion of the Olivet Discourse as referring to AD70. This is not uncommon, but it does not make him a preterist. In fact there are many dispensationalists who also happen to interpret portions of the Olivet Discourse as referring to AD70. (They usually are the ones who push for a “double fulfillment”, AD70 and the future “great tribulation”).

I hope this explanation will help you to carry on a reasonable discussion on the subject in the future.

If you want to get an accurate assessment of what Riddlebarger believes (and save yourself some embarrassment), try reading his series on Revelation that he's been posting on his blog, e.g.:

The first cycle of judgment in Revelation 6:1-8:1–the seal judgments– covers the entire period of time between Christ’s first advent and second coming [emp. added], before culminating in the sixth seal, which is the return of the Lord. The series of seal judgments brings death and destruction upon one fourth of the earth’s inhabitants and demonstrates the Lamb’s authority to bring judgment upon the earth.

He is clearly not a preterist.