Synonyms:
practitioner, practician
Meaning: someone who practices a learned profession
Usage examples
The doctor was an affable local practitioner with white hair, and he said nothing till Dick began to describe the gray film in the studio.
A strong, intellectually superior man, this, scrupulously groomed and well-dressed, as befitted what he really was--a medical practitioner with an excellent connection amongst the exclusive society of a cathedral town.
The cardinal was indeed very ill; large drops of sweat flowed down upon his bed of agony, and the frightful pallor of a face streaming with water was a spectacle which the most hardened practitioner could not have beheld without much compassion.