Definitions for practitioner
prækˈtɪʃ ə nərprac·ti·tion·er

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. practitioner, practiciannoun

   someone who practices a learned profession

WiktionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. practitionernoun

   A person who practices a profession or art.

2. Etymology: Formerly practicioner for *, from practician + -er (the suffix unnecessarily added, as in musicianer).

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Practitionernoun

   Etymology: from practice.

   1. He who is engaged in the actual exercise of any art.

   The author exhorts all gentlemen practitioners to exercise themselves in the translatory. Arbuthnot.

   I do not know a more universal and unnecessary mistake among the clergy, but especially the younger practitioners. Jonathan Swift.

   2. One who uses any sly or dangerous arts.

   There is some papistical practitioners among you. John Whitgift.

   3. One who does any thing habitually.

   He must be first an exercised, thorough-paced practitioner of these vices himself. Robert South, Sermons.

ChatGPTRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. practitioner

   A practitioner is an individual who is actively engaged in a specific profession, discipline or field that involves the application of certain skills or knowledge. This person is often certified or accredited in their area of practice and follows a specific professional or ethical standard. Examples include medical practitioners, legal practitioners, and holistic healers among others.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Practitionernoun

   one who is engaged in the actual use or exercise of any art or profession, particularly that of law or medicine

2. Practitionernoun

   one who does anything customarily or habitually

3. Practitionernoun

   a sly or artful person

4. Etymology: [From Practician.]

Chambers 20th Century DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Practitioner

   prak-tish′un-ėr, n. one who practises or is engaged in the exercise of any profession, esp. medicine or law.—General practitioner, one who practises in all the branches of medicine and surgery. [Older form practician—O. Fr. practicien.]

Matched Categories

1. • Professional

British National Corpus

1. Nouns Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'practitioner' in Nouns Frequency: #1362

How to pronounce practitioner?

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   Karen

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of practitioner in Chaldean Numerology is: 7

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of practitioner in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4

Examples of practitioner in a Sentence

1. Kirstie Wilson:

   It took me four months of going back and forth to my GP (general practitioner) before I was given a [Pap] smear test.

2. Luis Bartolomei:

   No one is disputing that Jonathan was acting erratically, yet, not once did anyone from the Arlington jail call for any type of mental health practitioner or take Jonathan to any type of hospital.

3. Kirstie Wilson:

   I was bleeding in between periods and I was in agony but doctors diagnosed me with thrush and growing pains, it took me four months of going back and forth to my GP (general practitioner) before I was given a [Pap] smear test.

4. Dave Chappelle:

   I love my art form because I understand every practitioner of it, whether I agree with them or not I know where they're coming from. They want to be heard, they got something to say, there's something they notice. They just want to be understood, i love this genre, it saved my life.

5. Bernhard Wiedermann:

   I've been telling our providers you should always stay within the lines when you're coloring, the immune response for this virus is very complex. A practitioner might think, whether it's giving a higher dose or a lower dose, that they're helping a particular child, but if it hasn't been studied don't do it, because we really don't know what the effects of that will be. This is not the time to be messing with anything outside of what's been authorized.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=practitioner
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Practitioner
3. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=practitioner
4. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com
5. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/practitioner
6. ^ Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/37683/37683-h/37683-h.htm#:~:text=practitioner