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POLYMATH
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Dictionary entry overview: What does polymath mean?
• POLYMATH (noun)
The noun POLYMATH has 1 sense:
1. a person of great and varied learning
Familiarity information: POLYMATH used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A person of great and varied learning
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Hypernyms ("polymath" is a kind of...):
initiate; learned person; pundit; savant (someone who has been admitted to membership in a scholarly field)
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