DIETITIAN

dietician, dietitian

(noun) a specialist in the study of diet and nutrition

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Noun

dietitian (plural dietitians)

A person who studies or practices dietetics.

Usage notes

• Professionals in the field prefer dietitian to dietician and most corpora show the preferred spelling to be significantly more common, but BNC shows them about equally common in the UK. The Corpus of Global Web-based English (GloWbE) shows the preferred spelling about 40% more common.

Anagrams

• initiated

Source: Wiktionary


Di"et*ist, Di`e*ti"tian, n.

Definition: One skilled in dietetics. [R.]

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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