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professional

noun
/pɹəˈfɛʃ.ə.nəl/CA/pɹəˈfeʃ.ə.nəl/

Etymology

From Middle English professhennalle, professhynalle; equivalent to profession + -al.

  1. inherited from professhennalle

Definitions

  1. A person who belongs to a profession.

  2. A person who earns their living from a specified activity.

  3. A prostitute.

    • There was this nice lady who flirted with me at the bar, but it turned out that she was a professional.
  4. ›+ 6 more definitions

    1. A reputation known by name.

    2. An expert.

      • I have learned that there is a person attached to a golf club called a professional. Find out who fills that post at the Green Meadow Club; […] invite the professional, urgently, to dine with us this evening.

    3. One of four categories of sociologist propounded by Horowitz

      One of four categories of sociologist propounded by Horowitz: a sociologist who is actively concerned with promoting the profession of sociology.

    4. Of, pertaining to, or in accordance with the (usually high) standards of a profession.

      • His forefathers had been, as a rule, professional men—physicians and lawyers; his grandfather died under the walls of Chapultepec Castle while twisting a tourniquet for a cursing dragoon; an uncle remained indefinitely at Malvern Hill;[…].

    5. That is carried out for money, especially as a livelihood.

    6. Expert.

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Derived

antiprofessional, biprofessional, certified safety professional, extraprofessional, interprofessional, intraprofessional, legal professional privilege, monoprofessional, multiprofessional, non-professional, nonprofessional, paraprofessional, preprofessional, profersonal, professional class, professional deformation, professional engineer, professionalese, professional foul, professionalisation, professionalish, professionalism, professionalist, professionality, professionalize, professionally, professionalness, professional politician, professional rescuers doctrine, professional secrecy, professional service, professionalship, professional sport, professional student, professional suicide, professional support lawyer, professional university, professional victim, professional wrestler, professional wrestling · +16 more

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at professional. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at professional. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

10 hops · closes at professional

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA