Dictionary Entry
profession
profession is a 10-letter English word with 9 senses as verb and noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: The act of professing or claiming; open declaration; public avowal or acknowledgment; as, professions of friendship; a profession of faith. Face value is 15 in Scrabble and 17 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
10 letters · Scrabble 15 · Words With Friends 17 · 9 senses
Definitions
- 1verb
The act of professing or claiming; open declaration; public avowal or acknowledgment; as, professions of friendship; a profession of faith.
- 2verb
That which one professed; a declaration; an avowal; a claim; as, his professions are insincere.
- 3verb
That of which one professed knowledge; the occupation, if not mechanical, agricultural, or the like, to which one devotes one's self; the business which one professes to understand, and to follow for subsistence; calling; vocation; employment; as, the profession of arms; the profession of a clergyman, lawyer, or physician; the profession of lecturer on chemistry.
- 4verb
The collective body of persons engaged in a calling; as, the profession distrust him.
- 5verb
The act of entering, or becoming a member of, a religious order.
- 6noun
an occupation requiring special education (especially in the liberal arts or sciences)
- 7noun
affirmation of acceptance of some religion or faith
"a profession of Christianity"
- 8noun
an open avowal (true or false) of some belief or opinion
"a profession of disagreement"
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- 9noun
the body of people in a learned occupation
"the news spread rapidly through the medical profession"
"they formed a community of scientists"
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