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proficient

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English

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Etymology

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FromLatinproficiens, present participle ofproficere(“to go forward, advance, make progress, succeed, be profitable or useful”), frompro(“forth, forward”) +facere(“to make, do”); seefact.

Pronunciation

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(Received Pronunciation)IPA^(key): /pɹəˈfɪʃ.ənt/
(General American)IPA^(key): /pɹoʊˈfɪʃ.ənt/,/pɹəˈfɪʃ.ənt/
Audio(US): (file)
Rhymes:-ɪʃənt

Adjective

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proficient (comparativemoreproficient,superlativemostproficient)

Good at something;skilled;fluent;practiced, especially in relation to a task or skill.
He was aproficient writer with an interest in human nature.
- 1912 October,Edgar Rice Burroughs, “Tarzan of the Apes”, inThe All-Story, New York, N.Y.:Frank A. Munsey Co.,→OCLC; republished as chapter 5, inTarzan of the Apes, New York, N.Y.:A. L. Burt Company,1914 June,→OCLC:
  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 becameproficient.

skilled

Armenian:please add this translation if you can
Bikol Central:tatao (bcl)
Bulgarian:умел (bg)(umel),изкусен (bg)(izkusen),опитен (bg)(opiten)
Catalan:perit (ca),capaç (ca),versat (ca)
Chinese:
Mandarin:熟練的 /熟练的 (zh)(shúliàn),諳練的 /谙练的 (zh)(ānliàn),嫻熟的 /娴熟的 (zh)(xiánshú),熟嫻的 /熟娴的 (zh)(shúxián),純熟的 /纯熟的 (zh)(chúnshú)
Dutch:geoefend (nl),competent (nl),bekwaam (nl)
Esperanto:lerta
Finnish:taitava (fi);sujuva (fi)(of language)
French:compétent (fr)
Galician:competente (gl)
German:tüchtig (de),fähig (de),kompetent (de),befähigt (de),bewandert (de),erfahren (de),sachkundig (de),geübt (de),geschickt (de)
Hindi:प्रवीण (hi)(pravīṇ)
Icelandic:fær (is),snjall (is)
Italian:competente (it),esperto (it),proficuo (it)
Japanese:熟練な (ja)(じゅくれんな, jukuren na),上手な (ja)(じょうずな, jōzu na)
Kazakh:жетік(jetık),білікті(bılıktı)
Manx:aghtal
Maori:kaiaka,matatau
Norwegian:flink (no)
Polish:biegły (pl)
Portuguese:proficiente (pt),competente (pt),perito (pt)
Russian:уме́лый (ru)(umélyj),иску́сный (ru)(iskúsnyj),компете́нтный (ru)(kompeténtnyj)
Spanish:competente (es),proficiente (es),perito (es)
Swedish:sakkunnig (sv),erfaren (sv)
Tagalog:dalubhasa
Thai:please add this translation if you can
Turkish:becerikli (tr),ehliyetli (tr),kabiliyetli (tr),mahir (tr),mütehassıs (tr),usta (tr),uzman (tr),yeterli (tr)
Ukrainian:досві́дчений(dosvídčenyj),вмі́лий(vmílyj),компете́нтний(kompeténtnyj)
Uyghur:پۇختا(puxta)

Noun

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proficient (pluralproficients)

Anexpert.
- 1880, Francis John Bellew,Memoirs of a Griffin; Or, A Cadet's First Year in India, page202:
  The colonel now addressed me,[…] adding, "I hope we shall send you to your regiment up the country quite aproficient, and calculated to reflect credit on your instructors in the Zubberdust Bullumteers."
- 1924,Herman Melville, chapter 10, inBilly Budd‎^[1], London: Constable & Co.:
  Why not subpoena as well the clericalproficients?