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learned person
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learned person
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| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | educated person |
| Synonyms: | bibliophile, bookman, bookwoman, brain, erudite person, intellectual, know-it-all, man or woman of learning, man or woman of letters, sage, savant(e), scholar, walking encyclopedia |
| Antonyms: | ignoramus |
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| Main Entry: | savant |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | scholar |
| Synonyms: | academic, bookworm, brain*, egghead, expert, intellect, intellectual, learned person, learner, master, philosopher, pundit, sage, wise person |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | scholar |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person who is very involved in education and learning |
| Synonyms: | academic, augur, bookish person, bookworm, brain*, critic, disciple, doctor, egghead, gnome, grind*, intellectual, learned person, learner, litterateur, person of letters, philosopher, professor, pupil, sage, savant, schoolchild, scientist, student, teacher, tool, wise person |
* = informal/non-formal usage
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| Concept: | Sage. |
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sage, wise man; master mind, master spirit of the age; longhead, thinker., authority, oracle, luminary, shining light, esprit fort, magnus Apollo, Solon, Solomon, Nestor, Magi, "second Daniel.", man of learning; expert; wizard., [Ironically] wiseacre, bigwig.
-adjectives
venerable, reverenced, emeritus.
-phrases
barba tenus sapientes.
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| Antonyms: | fool |
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| Concept: | Scholar. |
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-nouns
scholar, connoisseur, savant, pundit, schoolman, professor, graduate, wrangler; academician, academist; master of arts, doctor, licentitate, gownsman; philosopher, master of math; scientist, clerk; sophist, sophister; linguist; glossolinguist, philologist; philologer; lexicographer, glossographer; grammarian; litterateur, literati, dilettanti, illuminati; fellow, Hebraist, lexicologist, mullah, munshi, Sanskritish; sinologist, sinologue; Mezzofanti, admirable Crichton, Mecaenas., bookworm, helluo librorum; bibliophile, bibliomaniac; bluestocking, bas-bleu; bigwig, learned Theban, don; Artium Baccalaureus, Artium Magister., learned man, literary man; homo multarum literarum; man of learning, man of letters, man of education, man of genius., antiquarian, antiquary; archaeologist., sage (wise man)., pedant, doctrinaire; pedagogue, Dr. Pangloss; pantologist, criminologist., schoolboy (learner).
-adjectives
learned; brought up at the feet of Gamaliel.
-phrases
"he was a scholar and a ripe and good one" [Henry VIII]; "the manifold linguist" [All's Well That Ends Well].
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| Antonyms: | ignoramus |
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