Word to describe a person who has a lot of experience in a specific field. I know some people who have been with me in my career.
I’m looking for a word to describe a person who has significant experience in a particular field (for example, an artist who has worked in the music industry for more than 10 years).
There are some possibilities I have already considered, such as worldly-wise or mature, but these aren’t quite what I’m looking for.
(aka an authority on their
field) An accepted source of expert information or advice. – TFD
(adj: authoritative )
– adj: authoritative.
More common for artists, but a person who has extensive knowledge and expertise in a field is known in New York as a “maven”. (From Yiddish, which is pervasive in the average New Yorker’s vocabulary.) In fact, when you hear someone described as a “big muckety-muck” it is a mid-western U.S. interpretation of the Yiddish “macha” or “big macha” – which is what we say in NY. Yiddish not only has a lot of great descriptive terms, but it’s very onomatopoeic(?), so
Is it true that a
person thinks “veteran” or what it means to be a living, working, or retired person?
How long should you take the experience to be considered a Veteran?
At 30, Alicia Keys is a music industry veteran with 35m albums sold
sold. “The life of the band is over,” says Sarah Elliott, CFO.
Some possibilities include professional, experienced, seasoned, knowledgeable or simply experienced.
In your case I would go with’seasoned’ as it forms a neat collocation: Several
exhibitions are devoted to seasoned artists. I would’save’ a few more to finish the piece.
Artist Mr. Barry is a seasoned artist with hundreds of exhibitions under his belt.
Why dancers don’t start groups before they are seasoned? They’re starting new companies as an
artist.
