Savant
['sævənt] or [sæ'vɑnt]
Definition
(a.) A man of learning; one versed in literature or science; a person eminent for acquirements.
Typist: Portia
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [Fr. pl. Savants.] Scholar, learned man, erudite person, one of the literati, man of science.
Edited by Juanita
Definition
n. a learned man.
Typed by Dominic
Examples
- Tesla in the United States, Branly and Ducretet in France, Righi in Italy, the Russian savant, Popoff, and Professor Lodge, of England, have all made contributions to this art. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- His conversation, I remember, was about the Bertillon system of measurements, and he expressed his enthusiastic admiration of the French savant. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- Some vague expectation I had that a savant would stand up and deliver a formal speech, half dogmatism to the Athenians, half flattery to the princes. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Papa has asked some gentlemen to dinnerall savants. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
Typist: Paul