skilled

adj
/skɪld/

Etymology

From skill (noun) + -ed.

  1. derived from *(s)kelH-
  2. inherited from *skilōną
  3. derived from skilja
  4. inherited from scilian
  5. inherited from skilen
  6. formed as skilled — “skill + -ed

Definitions

  1. Having or showing skill

    Having or showing skill; skillful.

    • In the Ming Dynasty, a man named Zhang Weiyan in Jiangyin, of Jiangsu Province, was a skilled writer. He was quite well-known in his region.
  2. Requiring special abilities or training.

  3. simple past and past participle of skill

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

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

7 hops · closes at skilled

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