LEARNED PROFESSION

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

One of the three professions traditionally believed to require advanced learning and high principles

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("learned profession" is a kind of...):

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

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "learned profession"):

law; practice of law (the learned profession that is mastered by graduate study in a law school and that is responsible for the judicial system)

medicine; practice of medicine (the learned profession that is mastered by graduate training in a medical school and that is devoted to preventing or alleviating or curing diseases and injuries)

theology (the learned profession acquired by specialized courses in religion (usually taught at a college or seminary))

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