Usually means: Skilled and proficient in something.
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We found 38 dictionaries that define the word adept:

General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. adept: Merriam-Webster
  2. adept: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. adept: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. adept: Collins English Dictionary
  5. adept: Vocabulary.com
  6. Adept, adept: Wordnik
  7. adept: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. adept: Wiktionary
  9. adept: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. adept: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. adept: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Adept, adept: Dictionary.com
  13. adept: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. adept: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. ADEPT (medicine), ADEPT, Adept (band), Adept (comics), Adept (disambiguation), Adept: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Adept: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. adept: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. adept: Rhymezone
  19. adept: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. adept: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. adept: FreeDictionary.org
  22. adept: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. adept: TheFreeDictionary.com
  24. adept: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  25. adept: Merriam-Webster

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. adept: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. adept: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. ADEPT: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Sound-Alike Words (No longer online)
  2. ADEPT: Acronym Finder
  3. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. adept: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. adept: Urban Dictionary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. 2060 Shadow-Slang (No longer online)

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. ADEPT: GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS, CARTOGRAPHY, AND REMOTE SENSING

(Note: See adeptly as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Well skilled; completely versed; thoroughly proficient
noun:  One fully skilled or well versed in anything; a proficient

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