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n. A learned person; a scholar.

n. An idiot savant.

n. A person of learning; one who is versed in literature or science.

n. A person eminent for acquirements.

n. A man of learning; one versed in literature or science; a person eminent for acquirements.

n. A man of learning or science; one eminent for learning.

n. someone who has been admitted to membership in a scholarly field

"All the whole human drift, from the first ape-man to the last savant, is but a phantom, a flash of light and a flutter of movement across the infinite face of the starry night."

scholarly person    student    bookman    scholar   

polymath   

schola   

Labonte    Vermont    avant    commandant    croissant    debutante    detente    font    mont    nonchalant   

astronomer    botanist    alienist    naturalist    psychoanalyst    zoologist    publicist    ethnologist    mineralogist    oculist