Practitioner Definition

prăk-tĭshə-nər
practitioners
noun
practitioners
A person who practices a particular profession, art, etc.
General practitioner, nurse practitioner.
Webster's New World
A Christian Science healer.
Webster's New World
One who does anything customarily or habitually.
Wiktionary

(dated) A sly or artful person.

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Noun

Singular:
practitioner
Plural:
practitioners

Origin of Practitioner

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

    From Wiktionary

  • Alteration of practician from Old French practicien from practiser to practice practice

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Practitioner Sentence Examples

  • A soothsayer was a general practitioner in his art, not attached to any one god or temple.

  • She is a medical practitioner and she told me that she still uses small accumulators with her patients to assist the healing of wounds.

  • In early 1986, she began to suffer from chest pains and her general practitioner at the time diagnosed angina and commenced treatment.

  • He was, according to his enemies, the son of an apothecary, his father being in fact a doctor of medicine of respectable family, who kept a small drug store as part of the necessary outfit of a country practitioner.

  • How open is the practitioner to having perceptions questioned?

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Words Starting With

PPRPRA

Words Ending With

RERNER

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Words Starting With P and Ending With R

Starts With P & Ends With RStarts With PR & Ends With RStarts With P & Ends With ER

Word Length

12 Letter Words12 Letter Words Starting With P12 Letter Words Ending With R