archpractitioner

UK/ɑː(ɹ)tʃ.pɹækˈtɪʃənɚ/US/ɑɹt͡ʃ.pɹækˈtɪʃənɚ/

noun

A foremost practitioner.

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Meanings

nounarchpractitioner (plural archpractitioners)

plural archpractitioners · alternative arch-practitioner

  1. rareA foremost practitioner.

    As members of the United Nations, would it be in order for us to say that the archpractitioners of apartheid, which was declared a sin against humanity, are criminals?

    1996, South Africa Parliament, National Assembly, Debates of the National Assembly (Hansard), Issue 2, Government Printer, page 3191
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    Um jenes treue Liebe und deren Flatterhaftigkeit zu motivieren, ist er femer zur Umformung des ehrenwerten Diomedes der Ilias "into an archpractitioner of seductive wiles" gezwungen.

    1908, Otmar Schissel von Fleschenberg, Dares-Studien, M. Niemeyer, page 18

    Sauter and Joyce. If they sounded like a headline act in vaudeville, it was an amusing and telling coincidence, for in many ways they were the archpractitioners of news as low-budget entertainment.

    1991, Liz Trotta, Fighting for Air, Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, page 318

Origin

From arch- + practitioner.

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archpractitioner. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/archpractitioner

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Chicago

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