Professional and Scholar

Professional

Professional noun - A person engaged in one of the learned professions.

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Scholar and professional are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Scholar" instead a noun "Professional".

Scholar noun - A person with a high level of knowledge or skill in a field.

Usage example: a scholar who is a specialist in the history of ancient Greece

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Professional and scholar are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Professional" instead a noun "Scholar".

old	old professional	old scholar
legal	legal professional	legal scholar
proper	proper professional	proper scholar
brilliant	brilliant professional	brilliant scholar
Other adjectives: accomplished, young, respected, dedicated, local, educated.

The Reverend Venables is an amateur rather than a professional scholar, but is otherwise a textbook example.

Source: Literature / Lord Peter Wimsey
Canon examples include Theo Bell, a Brujah and a stoic Consummate Professional, Beckett, a Gangrel and perhaps the foremost Kindred scholar in history, and Hesha Ruhadze, a Setite who hardly comes across as Obviously Evil as the rest of his brethren.

Source: My Species Doth Protest Too Much
Angel, though not a professional scholar, is also heavily multilingual, well versed in both human and demonic tongues.

Source: Omniglot

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