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learned person

n. someone who has been admitted to membership in a scholarly field [syn: initiate, pundit, savant]

Usage examples of "learned person".

Although only one living man of his own free will ever went among them there, still, any well-learned person in Ireland can tell you that the abode of the Good People is in the hollow heart of the great mountain Sleive-na-mon.

Yet for all its beauty, the amber had changed in ways so subtle that only a Learned person would seeā€¦.

I was proud of my great size, and realized that now I could safely travel anywhere in the world, while my superior culture would make me a fit associate for the most learned person I might chance to meet.

The sharing of work in Horstede was more a matter of custom than of law, but an unknown learned person, about the middle of that century, wrote a treatise in Latin on estate management which describes the usual duties of every kind of people from thanes to slaves.

SCIENTISTS, or some scientists, for occasionally one learned person differs from other learned persons tell us they know all that is worth knowing about man, which statement, of course, includes woman.

All this was basic, first-year study, but it was one of his dreams to turn the language of alchemy into something any learned person could understand.