SPECIALISER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does specialiser mean? 

• SPECIALISER (noun)
  The noun SPECIALISER has 1 sense:

1. an expert who is devoted to one occupation or branch of learning

  Familiarity information: SPECIALISER used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SPECIALISER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An expert who is devoted to one occupation or branch of learning

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

specialiser; specialist; specializer

Hypernyms ("specialiser" is a kind of...):

expert (a person with special knowledge or ability who performs skillfully)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "specialiser"):

designer; graphic designer (someone who specializes in graphic design)

arborist; tree surgeon (a specialist in treating damaged trees)

Teutonist (a specialist in the history of the Teutonic people or language (especially with respect to the Teutonic influence on the history of England))

orientalist (a specialist in oriental subjects)

oculist; optometrist (a person skilled in testing for defects of vision in order to prescribe corrective glasses)

meteorologist (a specialist who studies processes in the earth's atmosphere that cause weather conditions)

limnologist (a specialist in the study of freshwater ponds and lakes)

decorator; house decorator; interior decorator; room decorator (a person who specializes in interior decoration)

designer; interior designer (a person who specializes in interior design)

graphologist; handwriting expert (a specialist in inferring character from handwriting)

enologist; fermentologist; oenologist (a specialist in wine making)

Germanist (a specialist in the study of Germanic language or culture or literature)

fingerprint expert; fingerprint man; fingerprint specialist (a specialist in identifying fingerprints)

educationalist; educationist (a specialist in the theory of education)

dietician; dietitian (a specialist in the study of diet and nutrition)

nutritionist (a specialist in the study of nutrition)

crystallographer (a specialist in crystallography)

criminologist (a specialist in criminology)

canonist (a specialist in canon law)

attache (a specialist assigned to the staff of a diplomatic mission)

Derivation:

specialise (devote oneself to a special area of work)