specialist
/ˈspɛʃəlɪst/
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.28 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A player on a team who primarily employs one particular skill or takes one particular role.
noun
An organism that is specialized for a particular environment.
noun
noun
A sixth-former at Eton College.
Example Sentences
- "This was a highly specialist job, and it has been very carefully carried out so that it is very hard to see that these windows are now modern replacements."
- "Dr. Robert Leroy Hutton, a retired specialist in internal medicine and a well‐known diagnostician, died yesterday here."
- "Most Americans mistakenly believe that they must see specialists for almost every medical problem."
- "The tree Lepidothamnus laxifolius is a high alpine specialist found in high-altitude bog communities and in scrub."
Etymology
Usage
Subject
Wiktionary places this term in Military.