specialist
nounEtymology Borrowed from French spécialiste, equivalent to special + -ist.
7 senses
- 1Someone who is an expert in, or devoted to, some…
- 2A player on a team who primarily employs one particular…
- 3A physician whose practice is limited to a particular…
- 4Any of several non-commissioned ranks corresponding to…
- 5An organism that is specialized for a particular environment.
- 6A stenotopic species.
- 7A sixth-former at Eton College.
1
Someone who is an expert in, or devoted to, some specific branch of study or research.
2
Hobbies, Lifestyle, Sports A player on a team who primarily employs one particular skill or takes one particular role.
3
Medicine, Sciences A physician whose practice is limited to a particular branch of medicine or surgery.
- Dr. Robert Leroy Hutton, a retired specialist in internal medicine and a well‐known diagnostician, died yesterday here.1964 September 24, “ROBERT L. HUTTON, DIAGNOSTICIAN, 83; Internist Dies —Had Been on Lincoln Hospital Staff”, in The New York Times:
- Most Americans mistakenly believe that they must see specialists for almost every medical problem.2017 March 6, Jamie Koufman, “The Specialists’ Stranglehold on Medicine”, in The New York Times:
4
Government, Military, Politics, War US Any of several non-commissioned ranks corresponding to that of corporal.
5
An organism that is specialized for a particular environment.
- The tree Lepidothamnus laxifolius is a high alpine specialist found in high-altitude bog communities and in scrub.
6
A stenotopic species.
7
A sixth-former at Eton College.
- Antonyms
- generalist, eurytopic
- Derived terms
- cyberspecialist, hyperspecialist, infectious disease specialist, left-handed specialist, multispecialist, non-specialist, nonspecialist, payload specialist, polyspecialist, specialistic, superspecialist
- Related terms
- specialize, subspecialty, subspecialist