accountant:

(plural: ‘accountants‘; pronunciation: the letters ‘c’ and ‘c’ are said with a ‘k’ sound as in “king)

a person whose job is to make, maintain and/or audit the accounts of a business, i.e. to calculate and show on paper how much money is spent and how much money is got and how much is the profit or loss, etc.,

Compare: cost accountant

Compare: auditor

accompanist:

(also ‘accompanyst’; pronunciation: the letters ‘c’ and ‘c’ are said with a ‘k’ sound as in “king”)

a person who plays a musical instrument, especially a piano, in tune with a singer or a group (troupe) of singers,

academician:

(plural: ‘academicians‘; pronunciation: please listen to the video you see on the right of this text)

a member of an academy, i.e. an educational or training institute, such as a school, college or university;

a member of an art, literary or scientific society or club,

academic:

(plural: ‘academics‘; pronunciation: the letter ‘c’ said with a ‘k’ sound as in “king”)

a member of a college or university whose job is to teach; an academician;

any educated person who knows much about education, knowledge and wisdom,

abortionist:

(plural: ‘abortionists’)

an abortionist

a person, especially a doctor, who causes an abortion, i.e. removes a baby from its mother before it is born, which in medical terms is ‘termination of pregnancy’; an abortion doctor,

P & P — List A

abortionist ~  academic ~  academician ~  accompanist ~  accountant ~

acolyte ~  acrobat ~  activist ~  actor ~  actuary ~  adapter or adaptor ~

addict ~  adept ~  adjutant ~  adman ~  administrator ~  admiral ~

Adventist ~  adventurer ~  adviser or advisor ~  advocate ~  aesthete ~

aggressor ~  agitator ~  agnostic ~  agoraphobic ~  agriculturalist or

agriculturist ~  agronomist ~  aide ~  aide-de-camp ~  alarmist ~  alchemist ~

alcoholic ~  alien  ~  almoner ~  altar boy ~  altruist ~  alumna ~  alumni ~  alumnus ~

amanuensis ~  amateur ~  ambassador ~  amputee ~  anaesthetist ~  analyst ~

anarchist ~  anatomist ~  ancestor ~  anchor ~  anchorite ~  ancillary ~  anglophile ~

Anglophobe ~  animist ~  annalist ~  announcer ~  antagonist ~  anthologist ~

anthropologist ~  antiquarian ~  aphasic ~  apiarist ~  apologist ~  appellant ~

applicant ~  appraiser ~  apprentice ~  Arab ~ arbitrator ~  archaeologist ~  archer ~

architect ~  archivist ~  aristocrat ~  arithmetician ~  armchair critic ~

armourer ~  artificer ~  artisan ~  artist ~  artiste ~  ascetic ~  aspirant ~

assailant ~  assassin ~  assayer ~  assessor ~  assistant ~  associate ~

astrologer ~  astronaut ~  astronomer ~  atheist ~  athlete ~  attaché ~

attacker ~  attendant ~  auctioneer ~  audience ~  auditor ~  author ~

authoritarian ~  autocrat ~  automaton ~  avenger ~  aviator ~  ayah

People & Professions

Introduction

Each of the six billion (6 – 7 billion, and the clock is ticking) of the present human population of the world has more than one name: a proper (personal) name, e.g. Thomas, Ahmed, Jain, Ram, Chang, etc.; a common name, e.g. man, woman, child; a name according to the profession, occupation or hobby, etc. the person engages him/herself, e.g. teacher, student, driller, clerk, manager, doctor, tourist, etc.; and according to the attitude, behaviour, conduct, etc., e.g. brute, cuss, celebrity, psycho, philanthropist, villain, comedian, etc. While referring to a person, using the right word to describe the person’s personality, occupation or behaviour makes it easier for the listener to have a right mental picture of that person.

There is nothing wrong in addressing any person who engages in teaching profession a teacher, but using the right word depending on where that person teaches shows our command of the language. For instance, a person teaching at a school is a teacher, a person teaching at a college is a lecturer and a person teaching or coaching senior students at a university is a professor; and a person who teaches a student or a group of students privately, i.e. not at any educational institution but at his/her or the student’s place is a tutor and so on. This part of the “weblearneng – online English language course material” explains what names are given to what kinds of people. To make it easy for the learners to follow this part – People & Professions, the words are arranged in alphabetical order, grouping all the words that start with the letter of alphabet ‘a’ under List A and all the words that start with the letter ‘b’ under List B, and so on.

To go to List A, click on the letter A in the line of letters of alphabet given below. And once the list is opened, you can click on any word you choose to learn or start from the first word and then to the next word and so on. NOTE: Each of the lists, like any other list, does not contain all the ‘name words’ under that letter but contains only those names that are frequently used at the basic level. Nevertheless, the learners are cordially invited to suggest or contribute any common ‘name word’ that has not been included in any of the lists so that the new name words will be added, if found appropriate! I sincerely hope that this course material will help you learn some of the ‘name words’ (vocabulary) of the English language so that you can use it when and where it is necessary! Thank you for visiting ‘weblearneng’ and wish you all the best!

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