Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A person with a high degree of skill in or knowledge of a certain subject.
- n. The highest grade that can be achieved in marksmanship.
- n. A person who has achieved this grade.
- adj. Having, involving, or demonstrating great skill, dexterity, or knowledge as the result of experience or training. See Synonyms at proficient.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Having had experience; experienced; practised; trained; taught by use, practice, or experience.
- Skilful; dexterous; adroit; having facility acquired by practice.
- Pertaining to or resulting from experience; due to or proceeding from one having practical knowledge or skill: as, expert workmanship; expert testimony.
- Synonyms Adroit, Dexterous, Expert, etc. (see adroit); trained, practised. See skilful.
- n. An experienced, skilful, or practised person; one skilled or thoroughly informed in any particular department of knowledge or art.
- n. In law, a person who, by virtue of special acquired knowledge or experience on a subject, presumably not within the knowledge of men generally, may testify in a court of justice to matters of opinion thereon, as distinguished from ordinary witnesses, who can in general testify only to facts. Synonyms Adept, Expert. See
adept , n. - To experience.
- [⟨ expert, n.] To examine (books, accounts, etc.) as an expert; have examined by an expert: as, the accounts have been experted.
Wiktionary
- adj. Extraordinarily capable or knowledgeable.
- adj. Characteristic of an expert.
- n. A person with extensive knowledge or ability in a given subject.
- n. chess A player ranking just below master.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Taught by use, practice, or experience, experienced; having facility of operation or performance from practice; knowing and ready from much practice; clever; skillful.
- n. 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.
- n. A specialist in a particular profession or department of science requiring for its mastery peculiar culture and erudition.
- n. A sworn appraiser.
- v. obsolete To experience.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a person with special knowledge or ability who performs skillfully
- adj. of or relating to or requiring special knowledge to be understood
- adj. having or showing knowledge and skill and aptitude
Etymologies
- From Latin expertus. (Wiktionary)
- Middle English, from Old French, experienced, from Latin expertus, past participle of experīrī, to try; see per-3 in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“It just appears rather contradictory to have used the term expert there.”
“Ezinearticles.com, which has published more than four million articles online on a wide variety of topics by what it calls "expert authors," is being pushed down Google Inc.'s search rankings in part because of "article vomit.”
The Wall Street Journal: Demoted Site Cites 'Article Vomit' as the Reason for Its Relegation
“(Though the expert is an exception: Civil law courts tend to appoint their own experts, instead of letting parties bringthem.)”
“His reputation as a social media guru I hate the word 'expert,' '' he says keeps growing, largely for helping companies use tools such as Facebook and Twitter to personalize customer relationships and expand their brands.”
“Among them: testimony from a range of people, including Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein and Harlem Children's Zone creator Geoffrey Canada; new terminology drop the phrase "expert networks" into Google and see what comes up; a front row seat to an ideological battle between the US Supreme Court and the Securities and Exchange Commission; and 2,400 secretly recorded phone calls in what is without a doubt the broadest use ever of wiretaps in a white collar crime case.”
The Huffington Post: Robert Amsterdam: The Galleon Trial and the Future of Hedge Funds
“No "expert" is going to turn up who can assess what you need in the way of clothing better than yourself.”
“The tipping point for being an "expert" is about 10,000 hours to be exact.”
“These are useful cautions because, as all these movies show, belief in authority of one kind or another -- including the authority of science -- was considerably stronger in that age than in the present day, when few leaders are trusted, and the word "expert" is almost invariably preceded by "so-called.”
“The Wall Street Journal's main Hugo Chavez antagonist is its self-styled Latin American "expert" Mary Anastasia O'Grady who makes up for in imagination and vitriol what she lacks in knowledge and journalistic integrity.”
Wall Street Journal Claims Chavez Oil Policy "Aims to Weaken US"
“Nancy Killefer, a professional efficiency expert, is charged with scouring the federal budget to eliminate programs that don't work and improve those that do.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘expert’.
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POL - people in power
daredevil, tzar, king, boss, master, commander, chief, kingpin, top banana, bigwig, big cheese, big wheel and 452 more...
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EU Buzz - ALL words and expressions
A combined list of
1. EU Buzz - single words
2. EU Buzz - collocations
3. EU Buzz - the 100 most active
collocation constituentsabsorption capacity, absorption rate, acceding country, accession candidate, accession countries, accession country, accession criteria, accession cycle, accession negotia..., accession partner..., accession priorities, accession treaty and 2650 more...
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EN - academic vocabulary
Use these and get promoted
abandon, abandonment, abnormally, abstract, abstraction, abstractly, abstracts, academia, academic, academically, academics, academies and 3119 more...
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EU Buzz - single words (1+2+3)
1. Strictly EU terms with special European meaning used only in the EU
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2. Keywords central to the understanding of the EU (people working for the EU are usually able to give thematic...acceleration, action, additionality, administrator, agenda, agricultural, agri-environmental, agriflation, agri-food, applicant, approach, assent and 1325 more...
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people (good)
nouns for good people / words that describe good people.
go to the bad people list
( people, character, descriptor, noun )philanthropist, angel, environmentalist, activist, advocate, volunteer, hero, parent, friend, virtuoso, gentleman, helper and 62 more...
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Ideas
brainchild, inspiration, muse, genius, eureka, discovery, intellectual prop..., intangible asset, goodwill, patented, savant, brainiac and 76 more...
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Skilled
precise, dexterous, expert, crafty, adept, proficient, agile, artful, qualified, capable, talented, facile and 1 more...
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INTERP - people and posts
annunciator, assistant, authorizing officer, back-bencher, board member, candidate, chair, chairman, chairperson, clerk of committees, commissioner, committee assistant and 70 more...
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RPG
rogue, alchemy, lady's favor, trollkin, herald's call, critical hit, insect plague, alteration, conjuration, destruction, mysticism, illusion and 65 more...
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The Ex-acting Xray
Out of this world via the "X-express".
exorbitant, exuberant, extant, exultant, expectorate, exhilarate, excommunicate, exacting, extenuate, exculpate, extirpate, expostulate and 110 more...
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The Sog Collection
My big word list.
chaos, flaccid, empirical, flotsam, cacophony, grumble, assuage, awe, romance, mortality, coalesce, fortuitous and 3282 more...
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Basic English Vocabulary
Very basic words for ESL students.
contemplate, container, consumer, consultant, consensus, conscious, conscience, connection, confusion, confront, conflict, confident and 4334 more...
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ESL Academic Word List
This is a list of academic words for students learning English as a Second or Foreign Language. It includes 570 word families that often appear in academic texts. It does not include words that are...
collapse, depression, colleagues, invoked, levy, nonetheless, likewise, so-called, ongoing, conceived, forthcoming, integrity and 558 more...
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my dictionary
able, abnormally, abroad, absent, abstract, acceptable, acceptance, access, accessible, accession, according to, account and 4551 more...
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SAT
abandon,extreme e..., abash,to humiliate, abate,to lessen, abbreviate,to sho..., abridge, abdicate,to forma..., aberration,depart..., abnormality, abet,to encourage, abhor,to hate, abide,to follow o..., abject,utterly ho... and 2228 more...
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for words
based upon per- indo-european root
turnverein, veer, frump, far, per, paramount, paramour, parget, parterre, parvenu, perissodactyl, palanquin and 133 more...
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