Meanings
adjectiveexpert (comparative more expert, superlative most expert)
comparative more expert · superlative most expert
- Extraordinary capable or knowledgeable.
My cousin is an expert pianist.
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I am expert at making a simple situation complex.
- Characteristic of an expert.
This problem requires expert knowledge.
- obsoleteProven, experienced, veteran.
nounexpert (plural experts)
plural experts
- A person with extensive knowledge or ability in a given subject.
If an expert says it can't be done, get another expert. - David Ben-Gurion
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We called in several experts on the subject, but they couldn't reach an agreement.
Plastics are energy-rich substances, which is why many of them burn so readily. Any organism that could unlock and use that energy would do well in the Anthropocene. Terrestrial bacteria and fungi which can manage this trick are already familiar to experts in the field.
2013 July 20, “Welcome to the plastisphere”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8845I'm an expert in my field Ufology, yes, it's all real Ancient aliens, it's all true I'm an expert just like you
2016, Neil Cicierega, “Touch-Tone Telephone”, in Spirit Phone, performed by Lemon Demon
verbexpert (third-person singular simple present experts, present participle experting, simple past and past participle experted)
present singular third person experts · participle present experting · participle past experted · past experted
- transitiveTo have (something) reviewed or checked by an expert.
Estimated cost of editorial work on Advanced History […] Estimated cost of experting the Advanced History […]
1896, California. State Dept, “Biennial Report”, in Education, page 521 more example
The bill in question was one proposing to appropriate from the public moneys of this State $30,000 to pay an accountant for experting the books of the Southern Pacific Company, in furtherance of litigation then pending.
1899, Journals of the Legislature of the State of California, California: Legislature, page 470
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adjectivehaving or showing knowledge and skill and aptitude
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Origin
- Latinexpertus
- Old Frenchexpert“experienced”
- Middle Englishexpert
- Englishexpert
Inherited from Middle English expert, derived from Old French expert (“experienced”), espert, from Latin expertus (contracted from *experitus), perfect active participle of experior (“to try”), from ex- + *-perior.
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Full word history & related roots →Translations
Ancient Greek ἐπιστήμων
- ἐπιστήμων (epistḗmōn)person with extensive knowledge or ability
Arabic خَبِير, مَاهِر
- خَبِير (ḵabīr)extraordinarily capable or knowledgeable
- مَاهِر (māhir)extraordinarily capable or knowledgeable
- مُتَخَصِّص (mutaḵaṣṣiṣ)person with extensive knowledge or ability
- مُتَخَصِّصَة (mutaḵaṣṣiṣa)person with extensive knowledge or ability
- خَبِير (ḵabīr)person with extensive knowledge or ability
- خَبِيرَة (ḵabīra)person with extensive knowledge or ability
Basque aditu
- adituperson with extensive knowledge or ability
Bengali দক্ষ, বিশেষজ্ঞ
- দক্ষ (dokkho)extraordinarily capable or knowledgeable
- বিশেষজ্ঞ (biśeśojno)person with extensive knowledge or ability
- দক্ষ (dokkho)person with extensive knowledge or ability
Bulgarian вещ, експе́ртен
- вещ (vešt)extraordinarily capable or knowledgeable
- експе́ртен (ekspérten)characteristic of an expert
- експе́рт (ekspért)person with extensive knowledge or ability
Catalan expert, expert
- expertextraordinarily capable or knowledgeable
- expertperson with extensive knowledge or ability
Chinese Cantonese 專家 /专家, 高手
- 專家 /专家 (zyun¹ gaa¹)person with extensive knowledge or ability
- 高手 (gou¹ sau²)person with extensive knowledge or ability
Chinese Mandarin 專家 /专家, 專門家 /专门家
- 專家 /专家 (zhuānjiā)person with extensive knowledge or ability
- 專門家 /专门家 (zhuānménjiā)person with extensive knowledge or ability
- 高手 (gāoshǒu)person with extensive knowledge or ability
Czech zkušený, odborný
- zkušenýextraordinarily capable or knowledgeable
- odbornýcharacteristic of an expert
- odborníkperson with extensive knowledge or ability
- expertperson with extensive knowledge or ability
- znalecperson with extensive knowledge or ability
Danish ekspert
- ekspertperson with extensive knowledge or ability
Dutch deskundige, expert
- deskundigeperson with extensive knowledge or ability
- expertperson with extensive knowledge or ability
Esperanto sperta, spertaj
- spertaextraordinarily capable or knowledgeable
- spertajextraordinarily capable or knowledgeable
- kompetentuloperson with extensive knowledge or ability
- kompetentulojperson with extensive knowledge or ability
- spertuloperson with extensive knowledge or ability
- spertulojperson with extensive knowledge or ability
- ekspertoperson with extensive knowledge or ability
- ekspertojperson with extensive knowledge or ability
- fakuloperson with extensive knowledge or ability
Estonian asjatundja, ekspert
- asjatundjaperson with extensive knowledge or ability
- ekspertperson with extensive knowledge or ability
Finnish taitava, asiantunteva
- taitavaextraordinarily capable or knowledgeable
- asiantuntevacharacteristic of an expert
- asiantuntijaperson with extensive knowledge or ability
- eksperttiperson with extensive knowledge or ability
- eksperttichess ranking
French expert, expert
- expertextraordinarily capable or knowledgeable
- expertperson with extensive knowledge or ability
German fachmännisch, Experte
- fachmännischextraordinarily capable or knowledgeable
- Experteperson with extensive knowledge or ability
- Fachmannperson with extensive knowledge or ability
- Fachfrauperson with extensive knowledge or ability
Greek έμπειρος, επιτήδειος
- έμπειρος (émpeiros)extraordinarily capable or knowledgeable
- επιτήδειος (epitídeios)extraordinarily capable or knowledgeable
- ειδικός (eidikós)characteristic of an expert
- εμπειρογνώμων (empeirognómon)person with extensive knowledge or ability
- εμπειροτέχνης (empeirotéchnis)person with extensive knowledge or ability
- δεξιοτέχνης (dexiotéchnis)person with extensive knowledge or ability
Hebrew מומחה, מֻמְחֶה
- מומחהperson with extensive knowledge or ability
- מֻמְחֶה (mumkhé)person with extensive knowledge or ability
Hindi दक्ष, कुशल
- दक्ष (dakṣ)extraordinarily capable or knowledgeable
- कुशल (kuśal)extraordinarily capable or knowledgeable
- निपुण (nipuṇ)extraordinarily capable or knowledgeable
- पारंगत (pāraṅgat)extraordinarily capable or knowledgeable
- विशेषज्ञ (viśeṣajña)person with extensive knowledge or ability
- माहिर (māhir)person with extensive knowledge or ability
- कबीर (kabīr)person with extensive knowledge or ability
- सिद्धहस्त (siddhahast)person with extensive knowledge or ability
Hungarian szakavatott, szakértő
- szakavatottcharacteristic of an expert
- szakértőperson with extensive knowledge or ability
- szakemberperson with extensive knowledge or ability
Icelandic sérfræðingur
- sérfræðingurperson with extensive knowledge or ability
Indonesian ahli, ahli
- ahliextraordinarily capable or knowledgeable
- ahliperson with extensive knowledge or ability
- pakarperson with extensive knowledge or ability
- eksperperson with extensive knowledge or ability
- spesialisperson with extensive knowledge or ability
Irish saineolaí
- saineolaíperson with extensive knowledge or ability
Italian esperto, abile
- espertoextraordinarily capable or knowledgeable
- abileextraordinarily capable or knowledgeable
- provatoextraordinarily capable or knowledgeable
- specialisticocharacteristic of an expert
- espertoperson with extensive knowledge or ability
Japanese 専門的, 専門的
- 専門的 (senmonteki)extraordinarily capable or knowledgeable
- 専門的 (senmonteki)characteristic of an expert
- 専門家 (senmonka)person with extensive knowledge or ability
- 熟練者 (jukurensha)person with extensive knowledge or ability
- 名人 (meijin)person with extensive knowledge or ability
Korean 전문적, 전문적
- 전문적 (jeonmunjeok)extraordinarily capable or knowledgeable
- 전문적 (jeonmunjeok)characteristic of an expert
- 숙련자 (sungnyeonja)person with extensive knowledge or ability
- 전문가 (jeonmun'ga)person with extensive knowledge or ability
- 명인 (myeong'in)person with extensive knowledge or ability
Latin perītus, callidus
- perītusextraordinarily capable or knowledgeable
- callidusextraordinarily capable or knowledgeable
- consultusperson with extensive knowledge or ability
Latvian eksperts, eksperte
- ekspertsperson with extensive knowledge or ability
- eksperteperson with extensive knowledge or ability
Lithuanian ekspertas
- ekspertasperson with extensive knowledge or ability
Malay pakar
- pakarperson with extensive knowledge or ability
Māori mākohakoha, tautōhito
- mākohakohaextraordinarily capable or knowledgeable
- tautōhitoperson with extensive knowledge or ability
- pūkengaperson with extensive knowledge or ability
- mātangaperson with extensive knowledge or ability
Norwegian Bokmål ekspert
- ekspertperson with extensive knowledge or ability
Polish ekspert
- ekspertperson with extensive knowledge or ability
Portuguese especialista, perito
- especialistaextraordinarily capable or knowledgeable
- peritoextraordinarily capable or knowledgeable
- expertextraordinarily capable or knowledgeable
- expertperson with extensive knowledge or ability
- especialistaperson with extensive knowledge or ability
- peritoperson with extensive knowledge or ability
Romanian expert, de expert
- expertextraordinarily capable or knowledgeable
- de expertextraordinarily capable or knowledgeable
- expertperson with extensive knowledge or ability
Russian экспе́ртный, экспе́рт
- экспе́ртный (ekspértnyj)extraordinarily capable or knowledgeable
- экспе́рт (ekspért)person with extensive knowledge or ability
- специали́ст (specialíst)person with extensive knowledge or ability
- специали́стка (specialístka)person with extensive knowledge or ability
- знато́к (znatók)person with extensive knowledge or ability
Scottish Gaelic ealanta, teòma
- ealantaextraordinarily capable or knowledgeable
- teòmaextraordinarily capable or knowledgeable
- ealantacharacteristic of an expert
- teòmacharacteristic of an expert
- ealantachperson with extensive knowledge or ability
- eòlaicheperson with extensive knowledge or ability
Slovak odborník, znalec
- odborníkperson with extensive knowledge or ability
- znalecperson with extensive knowledge or ability
- expertperson with extensive knowledge or ability
Spanish experto, pericial
- expertoextraordinarily capable or knowledgeable
- pericialcharacteristic of an expert
- peritoperson with extensive knowledge or ability
- expertoperson with extensive knowledge or ability
- conocedorperson with extensive knowledge or ability
Swahili mtaalam, mtaalamu
- mtaalamperson with extensive knowledge or ability
- mtaalamuperson with extensive knowledge or ability
Swedish expert, expert-
- expertextraordinarily capable or knowledgeable
- expert-characteristic of an expert
- expertperson with extensive knowledge or ability
- sakkunnigperson with extensive knowledge or ability
Tagalog dalubhasa, eksperto
- dalubhasaextraordinarily capable or knowledgeable
- ekspertoextraordinarily capable or knowledgeable
- dalubhasaperson with extensive knowledge or ability
- ekspertoperson with extensive knowledge or ability
Thai ผู้เชี่ยวชาญ
- ผู้เชี่ยวชาญ (pûu-chîao-chaan)person with extensive knowledge or ability
Turkish usta, işinin eri
- ustaextraordinarily capable or knowledgeable
- işinin eriextraordinarily capable or knowledgeable
- ustacacharacteristic of an expert
- ustacharacteristic of an expert
- uzmanperson with extensive knowledge or ability
- ustaperson with extensive knowledge or ability
- üstatperson with extensive knowledge or ability
- mütehassısperson with extensive knowledge or ability
- bilirkişiperson with extensive knowledge or ability
Ukrainian експе́рт, фахіве́ць
- експе́рт (ekspért)person with extensive knowledge or ability
- фахіве́ць (faxivécʹ)person with extensive knowledge or ability
- знаве́ць (znavécʹ)person with extensive knowledge or ability
Urdu ماہِر, مُتَخَصِّص
- ماہِر (māhir)person with extensive knowledge or ability
- مُتَخَصِّص (mutaxassis)person with extensive knowledge or ability
Vietnamese chuyên gia
- chuyên giaperson with extensive knowledge or ability
Welsh arbenigwr
- arbenigwrperson with extensive knowledge or ability
Yiddish עקספּערט
- עקספּערט (ekspert)person with extensive knowledge or ability
Rhymes & wordplay
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APA
expert. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/expert
MLA
“expert.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/expert. Accessed November 2, 2026.
Chicago
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “expert,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/expert.
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