The body of people in a learned occupation.

Roget 535: affirmance, affirmation; statement, allegation, assertion, predication, declaration, word, averment; confirmation.    asseveration, adjuration, swearing, oath, affidavit; deposition etc. (record) 551; avouchment; assurance; protest, protestation; profession; acknowledgment etc. (assent) 488; legal pledge, pronouncement; solemn averment, solemn avowal, solemn declaration.    remark, observation; position etc. (proposition) 514, saying, dictum, sentence, ipse dixit [Lat.].    emphasis; weight; dogmatism etc. (certainty) 474; dogmatics etc. 887.    ... show more

Roget 546: untruth, falsehood, lie, story, thing that is not, fib, bounce, crammer, taradiddle^†, whopper; jhuth^†.    forgery, fabrication, invention; misstatement, misrepresentation; perversion, falsification, gloss, suggestio falsi [Lat.]; exaggeration etc. 549.    invention, fabrication, fiction; fable, nursery tale; romance etc. (imagination) 515; absurd story, untrue story, false story, trumped up story, trumped up statement; thing devised by the enemy; canard; shave, sell, hum, traveler's tale, Canterbury tale, cock and bull story, fairy tale, fake; claptrap.    press agent's yarn; puff, puffery (exaggeration) 549.    myth, moonshine, bosh, all my eye and Betty Martin, mare's nest, farce.    irony; half truth, white lie, pious fraud; mental reservation etc. (concealment) 528.    pretense, pretext; false plea etc. 617; subterfuge, evasion, shift, shuffle, make-believe; sham etc. (deception) 545.    profession, empty words; Judas kiss etc. (hypocrisy) 544; disguise etc. (mask) 530.    ... show more

Roget 625: business, occupation, employment; pursuit etc. 622; what one is doing, what one is about; affair, concern, matter, case.    matter in hand, irons in the fire; thing to do, agendum, task, work, job, chore [U.S.], errand, commission, mission, charge, care; duty etc. 926.    part, role, cue; province, function, lookout, department, capacity, sphere, orb, field, line; walk, walk of life; beat, round, routine; race, career.    office, place, post, chargeship^†, incumbency, living; situation, berth, employ; service etc. (servitude) 749; engagement; undertaking etc. 676.    vocation, calling, profession, cloth, faculty; industry, art; industrial arts; craft, mystery, handicraft; trade etc. (commerce) 794.    exercise; work etc. (action) 680; avocation; press of business etc. (activity) 682.    ... show more

Roget 768: promise, undertaking, word, troth, plight, pledge, parole, word of honor, vow; oath etc. (affirmation) 535; profession, assurance, warranty, guarantee, insurance, obligation; contract etc. 769; stipulation.    engagement, preengagement; affiance; betroth, betrothal, betrothment.    ... show more

An occupation requiring special education (especially in the liberal arts or sciences).

Polish: fach, zawód, profesja

An open avowal (true or false) of some belief or opinion:
— A profession of disagreement.

synonym: professing.

Affirmation of acceptance of some religion or faith.