[{"word":"profess","phonetic":"/pɹəˈfɛs/","phonetics":[{"text":"/pɹəˈfɛs/","audio":""}],"meanings":[{"partOfSpeech":"verb","definitions":[{"definition":"To administer the vows of a religious order to (someone); to admit to a religious order. (Chiefly in passive.)","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[]},{"definition":"To declare oneself (to be something).","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[]},{"definition":"To declare; to assert, affirm.","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[]},{"definition":"To make a claim (to be something); to lay claim to (a given quality, feeling etc.), often with connotations of insincerity.","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[]},{"definition":"To declare one's adherence to (a religion, deity, principle etc.).","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[]},{"definition":"To work as a professor of; to teach.","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[]},{"definition":"To claim to have knowledge or understanding of (a given area of interest, subject matter).","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[]}],"synonyms":[],"antonyms":[]}],"license":{"name":"CC BY-SA 3.0","url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0"},"sourceUrls":["https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/profess"]}]