profession

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   A type of job that needs special training or education, such as law or medicine.

   My father was a lawyer by profession.

2. 2
   noun

   All the people who work in a particular profession.

   The news spread quickly through the medical profession.

3. 3
   noun

   An open statement of a belief, feeling, or opinion.

   Despite his profession of loyalty, nobody quite trusted him.

From Middle English professioun, from Anglo-Norman professioun, Old French profession (“declaration of faith, religious vows, occupation”), from Latin professiō (“avowal, public declaration”), from the participle stem of profitērī (“to profess”). By surface analysis, profess + -ion.

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