ERUDITION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does erudition mean? 

• ERUDITION (noun)
  The noun ERUDITION has 1 sense:

1. profound scholarly knowledge

  Familiarity information: ERUDITION used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ERUDITION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Profound scholarly knowledge

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Synonyms:

encyclopaedism; encyclopedism; eruditeness; erudition; learnedness; learning; scholarship

Hypernyms ("erudition" is a kind of...):

education (knowledge acquired by learning and instruction)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "erudition"):

letters (scholarly attainment)

 Context examples 

These were searched and sought out through the whole nation, by the prince and his wisest counsellors, among such of the priesthood as were most deservedly distinguished by the sanctity of their lives, and the depth of their erudition; who were indeed the spiritual fathers of the clergy and the people.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)