Library / English Dictionary

PRACTICIAN

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Someone who practices a learned profession

Synonyms:

practician; practitioner

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("practician" is a kind of...):

professional; professional person (a person engaged in one of the learned professions)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "practician"):

clinician (a practitioner (of medicine or psychology) who does clinical work instead of laboratory experiments)

Gongorist (a practitioner of the affected elegant style of the Spanish poet Gongora)

homeopath; homoeopath (a practitioner of homeopathy)

Credits