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savant
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WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. someone who has been admitted to membership in a scholarly field [syn: initiate , learned person , pundit ]
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"one eminent for learning," 1719, from French savant "a learned man," noun use of adjective savant "learned, knowing," former present participle of savoir "to know," from Vulgar Latin *sapere , from Latin sapere "be wise" (see sapient ).
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Savant (French for "knowing", from the French savoir "to know", English since the 18th century) may refer to: Savant syndrome
Usage examples of savant.
Zarqa informed me that the savants who resided in these revitalized structures were named Hoom, Sarpasht, and Karoeth.
He evinced no surprise at the warnings of Hoom, gloomily admitting he had guessed the savant had captured me so that I could serve his needs as an extra test-subject.
One old teacher, Savant Judetha Lamai with unusual sympathy for her summerling chargesonce testified that truth underlaid the old tales.
A few looked vaguely familiar from ancient, blurry, color plates Savant Mother Claire had passed around, too faded to be used any longer in the upper school, but good enough to teach summerlings a dollop of geology.
I have invited Savants Barrere, Lalande, and Desnoyer to join our discussion because Oracle is so critical to their work.
The best known on the shores of the Vistula are: the miraculous Cagliostro: Boisson de Quency, grand charlatan, soldier of fortune, decorated with many orders, member of numerous Academies: the Venetian Casanova of Saint-Gall, a true savant, who fought a duel with Count Branicki: the Baron de Poellnitz .
And I do confess I am loath to throw my money in with this new Bank, and my lot in with this Juncto, when our money is to be recoined by a savant whose ideas are recondite, and whose motives are a source of endless puzzlement to me.
The circle of seminarists dropped spade and sieve and assembled around the savant.
VII Fra Paolo Sarpi--this friar so grave and great and unemotional--had been since he had entered the convent in his precocious boyhood the central figure, fascinating the interest of his community by the marvel of his progress, so that those who had been his teachers stood reverently aside, before he had attained to manhood, recognizing gifts beyond their leading which had already won homage from the savants of Europe and crowned the order of the Servi with unexampled honors.
Pomeroy Gaverdine, the idiot savant son of Elton and Gladys Gaverdine, was practicing his magic act outside the Body Shoppe to amuse the stalled motorists, shaking white doves from billowy silken scarves the color of bright Hawaiian pineapple slices.
The best known on the shores of the Vistula are: the miraculous Cagliostro: Boisson de Quency, grand charlatan, soldier of fortune, decorated with many orders, member of numerous Academies: the Venetian Casanova of Saint-Gall, a true savant, who fought a duel with Count Branicki: the Baron de Poellnitz .
The German savants, mostly attributing them to the Saba tribes, who immigrated from Yemen about our first century, tried the Himyaritic syllabaries and failed.
At his right was the celebrated psychopathologist, Professor Zutt, a typical savant with mild blue eyes and a Vandyke beard.
Norma thought the Savant should have focused his intellectual resources on something more challenging than smoke and mirrors.
The poor SAVANT was obliged to own that his cutlets could not be relished, even by hungry men.