Noun: expert
| Singular | expert |
| Plural | experts |
Sample Sentences
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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.
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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 8845:]
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I'm an expert in my field
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Ufology, yes, it's all real
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Ancient aliens, it's all true
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I'm an expert just like you [2016, Neil Cicierega, “Touch-Tone Telephone”, in Spirit Phone, performed by Lemon Demon:]
Nouns inflected like expert
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
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. See: Middle English Nouns '
expert', Middle English Nouns '
expert', Latin Nouns '
expertus'.
Verbs referencing "expert"
Finnish Nouns
ekspertti.