LEARNED PERSON

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does learned person mean? 

• LEARNED PERSON (noun)
  The noun LEARNED PERSON has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: LEARNED PERSON used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LEARNED PERSON (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Someone who has been admitted to membership in a scholarly field

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

initiate; learned person; pundit; savant

Hypernyms ("learned person" is a kind of...):

bookman; scholar; scholarly person; student (a learned person (especially in the humanities); someone who by long study has gained mastery in one or more disciplines)

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

polymath (a person of great and varied learning)