learned profession

American  

noun

1. any of the three vocations of theology, law, and medicine, commonly held to require highly advanced learning.

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Example Sentences

The Constitutional Convention of 1787 was made up of landowners, traders with commercial interests, and members of the “learned professions,” as they called doctors, professors, lawyers and ministers at the time.

From Washington Post

Architecture is one of the learned professions, like medicine or law.

From New York Times

If the young man wished to prepare for law or medicine or teaching or the ministry,—one of the “learned professions,”—then the old classical school was at his service.

From Project Gutenberg

The change is most perceptible among the educated classes and in the learned professions.

From Project Gutenberg

This unfortunate young doctor has an uncle, of the same learned profession, who is addicted to the science of animal magnetism.

From Project Gutenberg