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PRACTICIAN
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Someone who practices a learned profession
Synonyms:
practician; practitioner
Classified under:
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)