profession

名词 n.
中文释义
英 /pɹəˈfɛʃ.ən/    美 /pɹəˈfɛʃ.ən/|/pɹəˈfeʃ.ən/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A declaration of faith.; A promise or vow made on entering a religious order.
    — She died only a few years after her profession.
  2. A declaration of faith.; The declaration of belief in the principles of a religion; hence, one's faith or religion.
    — I congratulate you upon the wisdom that withheld you from entering yourself a member of the Protestant Association […] it is likely to bring an odium upon the profession they make, that will not soon be forgotten.
  3. A declaration of faith.; Any declaration of belief, faith or one's opinion, whether genuine or (as now often implied) pretended.
    — Despite his continued professions of innocence, the court eventually sentenced him to five years.
  4. A professional occupation.; An occupation, trade, craft, or activity in which one has a professed expertise in a particular area; a job, especially one requiring a high level of skill or training.
    — My father was a barrister by profession.
  5. A professional occupation.; The practitioners of such an occupation collectively. collective
    — His conduct is against the established practices of the legal profession.

词形变化

professions plural

词汇关系

衍生词
caring profession helping profession learned profession liberal profession nonprofession oldest profession oldest profession in the world professional professionist professionize professionless profession of faith pseudoprofession semiprofession world's oldest profession

词源

Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *per-der.?
Proto-Indo-European *per-der.?
Proto-Indo-European *pér
Proto-Indo-European *-o
Proto-Indo-European *pró
Proto-Indo-European *pro-
Proto-Italic *pro-
Latin prō-
Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂-der.
Proto-Italic *fatēōr
Latin fateor
Latin profiteor
Proto-Indo-European *-tis
Proto-Indo-European *-Hō
Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō
Proto-Italic *-tiō
Latin -tiō
Latin professiōnembor.
Old French professionbor.
Anglo-Norman professiounbor.
Middle English professioun
English profession
From Middle English professioun, from Anglo-Norman professioun, Old French profession (“declaration of faith, religious vows, occupation”), from Latin professiō (“avowal, public declaration”), from the participle stem of profitērī (“to profess”). By surface analysis, profess + -ion.
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