the oldest profession Definition

profession
noun

1. An occupation, especially one that requires specialist academic and practical training, eg medicine, law, teaching, engineering, etc.

Thesaurus: occupation, job, line of work, career, vocation, employment, calling, position, business, office, sphere, metier, walk of life.
2. The body of people engaged in a particular one of these.
3. An act of professing; a declaration.

Example: a profession of loyalty
Thesaurus: declaration, confession, affirmation, acknowledgment, claim, assertion, statement, testimony, manifesto, attestation, vow, avowal.
4. A declaration of religious belief made upon entering a religious order.

Idiom: the oldest profession

colloq
Prostitution.

Etymology: 13c: from Latin professio, professionis a public declaration.