Polymath
//ˈpɒlɪmæθ// noun
noun ·Uncommon ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 A person with extraordinarily broad and comprehensive knowledge.
"To be thought and held Polumathes and Polihistors."
- 2 a person of great and varied learning wordnet
Antonyms
All antonymsExample
More examples"A polymath is someone who knows a whole lot about a whole lot."
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek πολυμαθής (polumathḗs, “having learnt much”), first attested in 1624. From πολύς (polús, “much”) (for more, see poly-) + μανθάνω (manthánō, “to learn”). Compare opsimath, philomath, polyhistor, polymathic, polymathist, and polymathy.
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