expert
pronunciation
How to pronounce expert in British English:
UK [ˈekspɜːt]
How to pronounce expert in American English:
US [ˈekspɜːrt]
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- Noun:
- a person with special knowledge or ability who performs skillfully
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- Adjective:
- having or showing knowledge and skill and aptitude
Word Origin
- expert (adj.)
- late 14c., "having had experience; skillful," from Old French expert, espert "experienced, practiced, skilled" and directly from Latin expertus (contracted from *experitus), "tried, proved, known by experience," past participle of experiri "to try, test" (see experience). The adjective tends to be accented on the second syllable, the noun on the first. Related: Expertly; expertness.
- expert (n.)
- early 15c., "person wise through experience," from expert (adj.). The word reappeared 1825 in the legal sense, "person who, by virtue of special acquired knowledge or experience on a subject, presumably not within the knowledge of men generally, may testify in a court of justice to matters of opinion thereon, as distinguished from ordinary witnesses, who can in general testify only to facts" [Century Dictionary].
Antonym
Example
- 1. Expert systems are another name for classical ai .
- 2. However garroting is still common in india according indian author and forensic expert parikh .
- 3. Do effective shortcuts exist to becoming an expert ?
- 4. For a solution , mr dower looks to the 20th-century views of e. h. norman , a japan expert and marxist historian .
- 5. Usability expert jacob nielsen estimates that a usability review by an outside expert only identifies 35 % of usability problems .