health professional vs professional

professional vs health professional

health professional and professional both are nouns.

health professional is not an adjective while professional is an adjective.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
health professional	Yes	No	No	No
professional	Yes	Yes	No	No

As nouns, professional is a hypernym of health professional; that is, professional is a word with a broader meaning than health professional:

health professional: a person who helps in identifying or preventing or treating illness or disability
professional: a person engaged in one of the learned professions

Other hypernyms of health professional include professional person.

health professional (noun)	professional (noun)
a person who helps in identifying or preventing or treating illness or disability	a person engaged in one of the learned professions
	an authority qualified to teach apprentices
	an athlete who plays for pay

health professional (adjective)	professional (adjective)
	engaged in a profession or engaging in as a profession or means of livelihood
	characteristic of or befitting a profession or one engaged in a profession
	of or relating to a profession
	of or relating to or suitable as a profession
	engaged in by members of a profession

Difference between health professional and professional

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