WordNet
n. one of the three professions traditionally believed to require advanced learning and high principles
Usage examples of "learned profession".
Whatever station in society I may attain, through the medium of the learned profession of which I am about to become an unworthy member, I shall endeavour not to disgrace, and Mrs.
The learned profession of the law was certainly not behind any other learned profession in its Bacchanalian propensities.
I am sure that when I was surgeon's mate in the old Andromeda, or assistant-surgeon as we say nowadays, and indeed it is far more proper, mate having a certain colloquial, familiar connotation by no means suitable for a member of a learned profession- I am sure I went away in cutting-out expeditions or in sweeps along the coast in the yawl - twice I had command of the yawl!