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Linguist vs Professional - What's the difference?

linguist | professional |

As nouns the difference between linguist and professional

is that linguist is linguist (one who studies linguistics) while professional is a person who belongs to a profession.

As an adjective professional is

of, pertaining to, or in accordance with the (usually high) standards of a profession.

linguist

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • One who studies linguistics.
  • A person skilled in languages.
  • A human translator; an interpreter, especially in the armed forces.
  • Derived terms

    * bilinguist * linguistic * linguistics * trilinguist

    See also

    * (l) * (l)

    professional

    English

    Noun

    (wikipedia professional) (en noun)
  • A person who belongs to a profession
  • A person who earns his living from a specified activity
  • An expert.
  • * 1934 , edition, ISBN 0553278193, page 97:
  • I have learned that there is a person attached to a golf club called a professional'. Find out who fills that post at the Green Meadow Club; invite the ' professional , urgently, to dine with us this evening.

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Of, pertaining to, or in accordance with the (usually high) standards of a profession.
  • *
  • *:His forefathers had been, as a rule, professional men—physicians and lawyers; his grandfather died under the walls of Chapultepec Castle while twisting a tourniquet for a cursing dragoon; an uncle remained indefinitely at Malvern Hill;.
  • That is carried out for money, especially as a livelihood.
  • (lb) Expert.
  • Derived terms

    * non-professional, nonprofessional * professionalism * unprofessional