skilled

[skild] Origin

skilled

[skild]
adjective
1.
having skill; trained or experienced in work that requires skill.
2.
showing, involving, or requiring skill, as certain work.

Origin:
1545–55; skill1 + -ed3

mul·ti·skilled, adjective
non·skilled, adjective
o·ver·skilled, adjective
un·der·skilled, adjective
well-skilled, adjective


1. See skillful.

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a chattering or flighty, light-headed person.
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
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skill

2[skil]
verb (used without object) Archaic.
1.
to matter.
2.
to help; avail.

Origin:
1150–1200; Middle English skilien < Old Norse skilja to distinguish, divide, akin to skil (see skill1), Old English scylian to separate, Gothic skilja butcher, Lithuanian skélti to split
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skilled (skɪld)
 
adj
1.  possessing or demonstrating accomplishment, skill, or special training
2.  (prenominal) involving skill or special training: a skilled job

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Word Origin & History

skill
c.1175, "power of discernment," from O.N. skil "distinction, discernment," related to skilja (v.) "distinguish, separate," from P.Gmc. *skaljo- "divide, separate" (cf. M.L.G. schillen "to differ;" M.L.G., M.Du. schele "difference;" see shell). Sense of "ability, cleverness" first recorded c.1300.
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