Expert
Expert adjective - Having or showing exceptional knowledge, experience, or skill in a field of endeavor.
Usage example: people interested in laser eye surgery are advised to seek out an expert practitioner
Old
Old adjective - Being of advanced years and especially past middle age.
Expert is a synonym for old in mature topic. Sometimes you can use "Expert" instead an adjective "Old", if it concerns topics such as long-established.
Both words in one sentence
- His friend Diana the Acrobat, a 14-year-old gymnastics expert who has an extendable staff as her Weapon of Choice.
Source: Cute Bruiser / Western Animation - When the plot required it, however, he became a master swordsman, or a blackbelt in Venusian Aikido, or even an expert in Good Old Fisticuffs.
Source: Badass Bookworm / Live-Action TV - Chinaman is shown as an ultra-competitive breath holding champion/misguided special effects expert and Old Boy is a more-than-a-hundred year old senile nutcase/former Nazi who speaks entirely in German (yet everyone can understand him).
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