semiprofessional
adjective, noun
semiprofessional is an adjective meaning “Paid as a professional but on a part-time basis” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled S-E-M-I-P-R-O-F-E-S-S-I-O-N-A-L, and it appears about once in every 28 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does semiprofessional mean?
adjective
- 1
Paid as a professional but on a part-time basis.
- 2
Of or pertaining to a semiprofession.
- 3
Of close to professional standard; prosumer.
noun
- 1
A semiprofessional person.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of semiprofessional
- semi-professional
- semiprofessionals plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is semiprofessional?
Semiprofessional appears about once in every 28 million words in written English, the 161,690th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Where does semiprofessional come from?
From semi- + professional.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).