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pandit
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Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Pundit \Pun"dit\, n. [Hind. pandit, Skr. pandita a learned man.] A learned man; a teacher; esp., a Brahman versed in the Sanskrit language, and in the science, laws, and religion of the Hindoos; in Cashmere, any clerk or native official.
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A pandit ( IAST : paṇḍita), also spelled pundit (both pronounced ; Sanskrit : पण्डित) is a scholar or a teacher of any field of knowledge in Hinduism, particularly the Vedic scriptures, dharma , Hindu philosophy , or secular subjects such as music . He ...
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Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. an honorary title in India giving a person status as a learned man or scholar.
Usage examples of pandit.
McCloy, George Meany, Madame Pandit, Paul Reynaud, Eleanor Roosevelt, Adlai Stevenson.
Near the unwalled city, the priest sat down before the pandit, Ratna Ram, whose seat was under the kadamba tree by the temple of Maha Dev.
Besides the Gilberts were Dudley Lawton and his father, Hata, the Pandit, the Swami, and the Guru - the latter four persons in high dudgeon at being deprived of the lucrative profits of a Sunday night.