expert
Noun · AdjectiveOpen English WordNet
Noun (1)experts
- a person with special knowledge or ability who performs skillfullyType of actor, doerKinds specialist, ace, observer, therapist, analyst, veteran, talent, authority, efficiency expert, investigator +33 more
Adjective (2)
- having or showing knowledge and skill and aptitude“adept in handicrafts”“an adept juggler”“an expert job”“a good mechanic”“a practiced marksman”“a proficient engineer”“a lesser-known but no less skillful composer”“the effect was achieved by skillful retouching”Synonyms: adeptgoodpracticedproficientskillfulskilfulOpposite unskilledSimilar skilled
- of or relating to or requiring special knowledge to be understood“technical terminology”“a technical report”“technical language”Synonyms: technicalOpposite unskilledSimilar skilled
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Translations
Noun person with extensive knowledge or ability
- Spanish
- experto
- French
- expert
- German
- Experte
- Italian
- esperto
- Portuguese
- perito
- Turkish
- uzman
- Russian
- экспе́рт ekspért
- Arabic
- خَبِير ḵabīr
- Chinese
- 专家 zhuānjiā
- Japanese
- 専門家 senmonka
30 more languages
- Dutch
- expert
- Polish
- ekspert
- Swedish
- expert
- Greek
- εμπειρογνώμων empeirognómon
- Korean
- 숙련자 sungnyeonja
- Indonesian
- ahli
- Vietnamese
- chuyên gia
- Hungarian
- szakértő
- Portuguese (PT)
- perito
- Chinese (Trad.)
- 專家 zhuānjiā
- Catalan
- expert
- Czech
- expert
- Danish
- ekspert
- Esperanto
- eksperto
- Estonian
- ekspert
- Finnish
- asiantuntija
- Georgian
- ექსპერტი eksṗerṭi
- Hebrew
- מומחה mumkhé
- Icelandic
- sérfræðingur
- Kurdish
- pispor
- Latvian
- eksperts
- Lithuanian
- ekspertas
- Norwegian
- ekspert
- Romanian
- expert
- Scottish Gaelic
- ealantach
- Serbo-Croatian
- ekspert
- Slovenian
- strokovnjak
- Swahili
- mtaalam
- Welsh
- arbenigwr
- Yiddish
- עקספּערט ekspert
Adjective extraordinarily capable or knowledgeable
- Spanish
- experto
- French
- expert
- German
- fachmännisch
- Italian
- esperto
- Portuguese
- especialista
- Turkish
- usta
- Russian
- о́пытный ópytnyj
- Arabic
- خَبِير ḵabīr
- Japanese
- 熟練した jukuren shita
- Dutch
- deskundig
The main translation for each meaning, from the langtolang.com multilingual dictionary. Each word links to its full entry there.
Webster's Dictionary (1913)
Origin: F. expert, L. expertus, p. p. of experiri to try. See Experience.
Taught by use, practice, or experience, experienced; having facility of operation or performance from practice; knowing and ready from much practice; clever; skillful; as, an expert surgeon; expert in chess or archery.
A valiant and most expert gentleman.— William Shakespeare
What practice, howsoe'er expert In fitting aptest words to things... Hath power to give thee as thou wert?— Alfred Tennyson
Synonyms: Adroit; dexterous; clever; ready; prompt.
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.
☞ 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.
To experience. obsolete
Die would we daily, once it to expert.— Spencer.
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54