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LEARNED PROFESSION
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
One of the three professions traditionally believed to require advanced learning and high principles
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("learned profession" is a kind of...):
profession (an occupation requiring special education (especially in the liberal arts or sciences))
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "learned profession"):
law; practice of law (the learned profession that is mastered by graduate study in a law school and that is responsible for the judicial system)
medicine; practice of medicine (the learned profession that is mastered by graduate training in a medical school and that is devoted to preventing or alleviating or curing diseases and injuries)
theology (the learned profession acquired by specialized courses in religion (usually taught at a college or seminary))
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