expert
expert is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 3 senses, and appears in Roget's Thesaurus (1911) with 40 related terms. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.
Definitions
- 1.An expert or experienced person; one instructed by experience; one who has skill, experience, or extensive knowledge in his calling or in any special branch of learning.
- 2.(Law) (a) A specialist in a particular profession or department of science requiring for its mastery peculiar culture and erudition. Note: Such specialists may be witnesses in matters as to which ordinary observers could not without such aid form just conclusions, and are liable for negligence in case they injure another from want of proper qualifications or proper care in the exercise of their specialty. (b) A sworn appraiser.
- 3.To experience. [Obs.] Die would we daily, once it to expert. Spencer.
Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
Synonyms
Related terms (Roget's 1911)
- acrobat
- adept
- admirable
- age
- all
- authority
- bigwig
- blade
- business
- campaigner
- chef
- clean
- conjuror
- connoisseur
- crack
- cracksman
- cuisine
- cunning
- dab
- dabster
- dead
- deceiver
- donna
- emeritus
- esprit
- experienced
- eye
- fellow
- fiddle
- file
- first
- fort
- funambulist
- genius
- good
- gun
- hand
- head
- intellectual
- jobber
Source: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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Sources
- Definitions: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
- Synonyms: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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