Practitioner vs Academician - What's the difference?
As nouns the difference between practitioner and academician is that practitioner is a person who practices a profession or art, especially law or medicine while academician is (now|chiefly|us) a member (especially a senior one) of the faculty at a college or university; an academic.
practitioner
Noun
(en noun )
A person who practices a profession or art, especially law or medicine.
*{{quote-magazine, date=2014-06-21, volume=411, issue=8892, magazine=(The Economist)
, title= Magician’s brain
, passage=The [Isaac] Newton that emerges from the [unpublished] manuscripts is far from the popular image of a rational practitioner of cold and pure reason. The architect of modern science was himself not very modern. He was obsessed with alchemy.}}
One who does anything customarily or habitually.
(label) A sly or artful person.
* John Whitgift
- the men of St. John’s were cunning practitioners , in shaking off their Masters and Heads.
Derived terms
* general practitioner
* nurse practitioner
* pracademic
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academician
English
Noun
(en noun )
(now, chiefly, US) A member (especially a senior one) of the faculty at a college or university; an academic.
A member or follower of an academy, or society for promoting science, art, or literature, such as the French Academy, or the Royal Academy of Arts.
*1890 , (Oscar Wilde), The Picture of Dorian Gray , Vintage 2007, page 9:
*:‘Well, after I had been in the room about ten minutes, talking to huge overdressed dowagers and tedious Academicians , I suddenly became conscious that some one was looking at me.’
Synonyms
(member of university faculty)
* academian
* academic
Derived terms
* academicianship
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