Person of encyclopedic learning

Usage examples of polymath.

Jefferson was a polymath, an autodidact, a nerd literally without peer.

Persian polymath Ibn Sina, famous in Christendom as Avicenna, and through him the learning of the Greeks, by which was meant Aristotle and the Neo-Platonists.

I beavered away at that encyclopaedia with a tenacity that I wish I possessed now, and if I did not become a complete polymath I certainly gained enough information to be a nuisance to everybody who knew me.

Jericho has altered little since the events described in these chapters, although the curious visitor will no longer find Canal Reach marked upon the street map, for the site of the narrow little lane in which Ms Scott and Mr Jackson met their deaths is now straddled by a new block of flats, in which Mrs Purvis (together with Graymalkin) is happily resettled, and where one of her neighbours is the polymath who once regaled Morse on the history of Jericho and who is now a mature student reading Environmental Studies at London University.

A total polymath of original concepts in architecture, hydraulics, mechanics, astronomy, geology, anatomy, military and naval engineering, mapmaking, design of harbors and other works.

Political advisers were sometimes the brightest of bright graduates, multilin­gual polymaths who could quote Groucho as readily as Karl Marx.

Crake was very smart – even in the world of HelthWyzer High, with its overstock of borderline geniuses and polymaths, he had no trouble floating at the top of the list.