proficient
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[edit] English
[edit] Etymology
From Latin proficiens, present participle of proficere (“to go forward, advance, make progress, succeed, be profitable or useful”), from pro (“forth, forward”) + facere (“to make, do”); see fact.
[edit] Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA: /pɹəˈfɪʃ.ənt/, SAMPA: /pr@"fIS.@nt/
- (US) IPA: /pɹoʊˈfɪʃ.ənt/, /pɹoʊˈfɪʃ.ənʔ/
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[edit] Adjective
proficient (comparative more proficient, superlative most proficient)
- Good at; skilled; fluent; practiced, especially in relation to a task or skill.
- He was a proficient writer with an interest in human nature.
- 1912: Edgar Rice Burroughs, Tarzan of the Apes, Chapter 5
- By constant playing and experimenting with these he learned to tie rude knots, and make sliding nooses; and with these he and the younger apes amused themselves. What Tarzan did they tried to do also, but he alone originated and became proficient.
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skilled
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[edit] Noun
proficient (plural proficients)
- An expert.
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- (expert): expert
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expert
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[edit] External links
- proficient in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
- proficient in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
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[edit] Verb
prōficient
- third-person plural future active indicative of prōficiō