Adjacent Words

specialist definitions

	Tweet

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: an expert who is devoted to one occupation or branch of learning [syn: specialist, specializer, specialiser] [ant: Renaissance man, generalist]
2: practices one branch of medicine [syn: specialist, medical specialist]

Merriam Webster's

noun Date: 1855 1. one who specializes in a particular occupation, practice, or branch of learning 2. an enlisted rank in the United States Army corresponding to the grade of corporal; also any of several former enlisted ranks corresponding to the grades of sergeant through sergeant first class 3. an organism (as a bird) specialized especially in food or habitat • specialist or specialistic adjective

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. (usu. foll. by in) 1 a person who is trained in a particular branch of a profession, esp. medicine (a specialist in dermatology). 2 a person who specially or exclusively studies a subject or a particular branch of a subject. Derivatives: specialism n. specialistic adj.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Specialist Spe"cial*ist, n. One who devotes himself to some specialty; as, a medical specialist, one who devotes himself to diseases of particular parts of the body, as the eye, the ear, the nerves, etc.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(specialists) Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English. A specialist is a person who has a particular skill or knows a lot about a particular subject. ...a specialist in diseases of the nervous system. = expert N-COUNT: usu N n, n N, N in/on n

Moby Thesaurus

Wall Streeter, adept, aficionado, amateur, anesthesiologist, artist, artiste, authoritative, authority, bond crowd, broker, buff, cardiologist, chiropodist, confined, connoisseur, critic, curb broker, dealer, dermatologist, dilettante, expert, eye doctor, eye-ear-nose-throat specialist, fan, feature, featured, floor broker, floor trader, floorman, freak, geriatrician, gerontologist, gynecologist, immunologist, internist, jobber, knowledgeable, limited, maestro, master, neurologist, nut, obstetrician, oculist, odd-lot dealer, ophthalmologist, orthopedist, otolaryngologist, otologist, pathologist, pediatrician, pediatrist, pit man, podiatrist, professional, psychiatrist, pundit, radiologist, registered representative, restricted, savant, scholar, serologist, sharebroker, skin man, specialistic, specialized, stock dealer, stock-exchange broker, stockbroker, stockjobber, technical, technical expert, technician, two-dollar broker