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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun One who practices something, especially an occupation, profession, or technique.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A practiser; one who acquires knowledge from actual practice; one who has practical experience.
  • noun One who is engaged in the actual practice or exercise of any art or profession, as law or medicine.
  • noun One who uses schemes or artifices; a plotter; a conspirator.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun One who is engaged in the actual use or exercise of any art or profession, particularly that of law or medicine.
  • noun One who does anything customarily or habitually.
  • noun A sly or artful person.
  • noun See under General, 2.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun A person who practices a profession or art.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun someone who practices a learned profession

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Alteration of practician, from Old French practicien, from practiser, to practice; see practice.]

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

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

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