old hand
Word Rarity
Common
Frequency: Zipf frequency 5.25 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A person who is experienced at a certain activity.
Example Sentences
- "Near-synonyms: insider, initiate; habitué"
- "My tax advisor is an old hand at dealing with auditors."
- "The media, needless to say, are very pro-Bloomberg. He’s an old hand at stroking reporters and television executives, and few of them have raised the fact that it was Rudy who inherited a lawless city with crime out of control and over eight years, via his ‘broken windows’ theory, turned Gotham into the safest big city on the planet."