Definitions for profession
prəˈfɛʃ ənpro·fes·sion

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:4.5 / 18 votes

1. professionnoun

   the body of people in a learned occupation

   "the news spread rapidly through the medical profession"; "they formed a community of scientists"

2. professionnoun

   an occupation requiring special education (especially in the liberal arts or sciences)

3. profession, professingnoun

   an open avowal (true or false) of some belief or opinion

   "a profession of disagreement"

4. professionnoun

   affirmation of acceptance of some religion or faith

   "a profession of Christianity"

WiktionaryRate this definition:4.2 / 5 votes

1. professionnoun

   A promise or vow made on entering a religious order.

   She died only a few years after her profession.

2. professionnoun

   A declaration of belief, faith or of one's opinion.

   Despite his continued professions of innocence, the court eventually sentenced him to five years.

3. professionnoun

   An occupation, trade, craft, or activity in which one has a professed expertise in a particular area; a job, especially one requiring a high level of skill or training.

   My father was a barrister by profession.

4. professionnoun

   The practitioners of such an occupation collectively.

   His conduct is against the established practices of the legal profession.

5. Etymology: From professioun, profession, from professio, from the participle stem of profiteri.

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

1. Professionnoun

   Etymology: profession, Fr. from profess.

   1. Calling; vocation; known employment.

   I must tell you,
   You tender more your person’s honour, than
   Your high profession spiritual. William Shakespeare, Henry VIII.

   If we confound arts with the abuse of them, we shall condemn all honest trades; for there are that deceive in all professions, and bury in forgetfulness all knowledge. Walter Raleigh.

   Some of our profession keep wounds tented. Richard Wiseman.

   No other one race, not the sons of any one other profession, not perhaps altogether, are so much scattered amongst all professions, as the sons of clergymen. Thomas Sprat, Sermons.

   This is a practice, in which multitudes, besides those of the learned professions, may be engaged. Isaac Watts.

   2. Declaration.

   A naked profession may have credit, where no other evidence can be given. Joseph Glanvill, Sceps.

   Most profligately false, with the strongest professions of sincerity. Jonathan Swift.

   3. The act of declaring one’s self of any party or opinion.

   For by oil in their lamps, and the first lightning of them, which was common to them both, is meant that solemn profession of faith and repentance, which all christians make in baptism. John Tillotson, Sermons.

   When christianity came to be taken up, for the sake of those civil encouragements which attended their profession, the complaint was applicable to christians. Jonathan Swift.

WikipediaRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Profession

   A profession is a field of work that has been successfully professionalized. It can be defined as a disciplined group of individuals, professionals, who adhere to ethical standards and who hold themselves out as, and are accepted by the public as possessing special knowledge and skills in a widely recognised body of learning derived from research, education and training at a high level, and who are prepared to apply this knowledge and exercise these skills in the interest of others.Professional occupations are founded upon specialized educational training, the purpose of which is to supply disinterested objective counsel and service to others, for a direct and definite compensation, wholly apart from expectation of other business gain. Medieval and early modern tradition recognized only three professions: divinity, medicine, and law, which were called the learned professions. A profession is not a trade and not an industry.Some professions change slightly in status and power, but their prestige generally remains stable over time, even if the profession begins to have more required study and formal education. Disciplines formalized more recently, such as architecture, now have equally long periods of study associated with them.Although professions may enjoy relatively high status and public prestige, not all professionals earn high salaries, and even within specific professions there exist significant differences in salary. In law, for example, a corporate defense lawyer working on an hourly basis may earn several times what a prosecutor or public defender earns.

ChatGPTRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. profession

   A profession refers to a type of job or career that requires a high level of education, specialized training, and skills. It often involves providing a specific service, such as law, medicine, teaching, or engineering, and it usually requires formal qualifications and a regulatory body to oversee standards and conduct.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:3.5 / 2 votes

1. Profession

   the act of professing or claiming; open declaration; public avowal or acknowledgment; as, professions of friendship; a profession of faith

2. Profession

   that which one professed; a declaration; an avowal; a claim; as, his professions are insincere

3. Profession

   that of which one professed knowledge; the occupation, if not mechanical, agricultural, or the like, to which one devotes one's self; the business which one professes to understand, and to follow for subsistence; calling; vocation; employment; as, the profession of arms; the profession of a clergyman, lawyer, or physician; the profession of lecturer on chemistry

4. Profession

   the collective body of persons engaged in a calling; as, the profession distrust him

5. Profession

   the act of entering, or becoming a member of, a religious order

6. Etymology: [F., fr. L. professio. See Profess, v.]

WikidataRate this definition:2.5 / 2 votes

1. Profession

   A profession is a vocation founded upon specialized educational training, the purpose of which is to supply objective counsel and service to others, for a direct and definite compensation, wholly apart from expectation of other business gain. The term is in essence a rather vaguer version of the term "liberal profession", an anglicisation of the French term "profession libérale". Originally borrowed by English users in the nineteenth century, it has been re-borrowed by international users from the late twentieth, though the class overtones of the term do not seem to survive retranslation: “liberal professions” are, according to the Directive on Recognition of Professional Qualifications “those practised on the basis of relevant professional qualifications in a personal, responsible and professionally independent capacity by those providing intellectual and conceptual services in the interest of the client and the public”.

Editors ContributionRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. profession

   A person or group of people with a specific type of job.

   Their profession was known worldwide

   
   

   Submitted by MaryC on February 24, 2020  

Matched Categories

1. • Affirmation
   • Avowal
   • Occupation
   • Occupational Group

British National Corpus

1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'profession' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #3169

2. Nouns Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'profession' in Nouns Frequency: #1120

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How to pronounce profession?

1. Alex

   US English

   David

   US English

   Mark

   US English

   Daniel

   British

   Libby

   British

   Mia

   British

   Karen

   Australian

   Hayley

   Australian

   Natasha

   Australian

   Veena

   Indian

   Priya

   Indian

   Neerja

   Indian

   Zira

   US English

   Oliver

   British

   Wendy

   British

   Fred

   US English

   Tessa

   South African

How to say profession in sign language?

Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of profession in Chaldean Numerology is: 4

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of profession in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1

Examples of profession in a Sentence

1. Mohammad Latif Baher:

   We are loyal to our homeland and our profession. That’s why we still continue our jobs and provide services to our patients.

2. Judge Judy:

   New York Law School has evolved into a welcoming and nurturing institution since I graduated in 1965, it is a joy for me to be able to support talented women in their pursuit of a career in the law. Independent and focused women not only enrich the profession, but the world.

3. Joel Salinas:

   I consider myself to be one of the lucky people with mirror-touch, in that I was able to find a way to apply the touch in my profession and that’s been part of my journey.

4. Lisa Dadio:

   We saw what most of us in the profession knew was going to happen, crime just skyrocketed, and [there are a] lack of resources. The pandemic definitely didn't help with officers getting sick and dying and not being able to perform their duties due to the pandemic. … [Police departments] were not hiring and, en masse, police officers retired throughout the country.

5. Aldous Huxley:

   Abused as we abuse it at present, dramatic art is in no sense cathartic it is merely a form of emotional masturbation. It is the rarest thing to find a player who has not had his character affected for the worse by the practice of his profession. Nobody can make a habit of self-exhibition, nobody can exploit his personality for the sake of exercising a kind of hypnotic power over others, and remain untouched by the process.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=profession
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Profession
3. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=profession
4. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Profession
5. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com
6. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/profession
7. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=profession
8. ^ Usage in printed sources
   https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=profession