Erudite

/ˈɛɹ.ʊ.daɪt/ · adjective

Meaning

Learned, scholarly, with emphasis on knowledge gained from books..

Definitions by Sense

1. Learned, scholarly, with emphasis on knowledge gained from books.
2. a learned or scholarly person

Example Sentences

The professor gave an erudite lecture that impressed everyone in the audience.

His erudite knowledge of ancient history made him a sought-after speaker.

She was praised for her erudite contributions to the academic journal.

At all events, if it involved any secret information in regard to old Roger Chillingworth, it was in a tongue unknown to the erudite clergyman, and did but increase the bewilderment of his mind.

Elmer Moffatt had been magnificent, rolling out his alternating effects of humour and pathos, stirring his audience by moving references to the Blue and the Gray, convulsing them by a new version of Washington and the Cherry Tree […], dazzling them by his erudite allusions and apt quotations.

THE CONCISE ENCYCLOPAEDIA OF WORLD RAILWAY LOCOMOTIVES. Edited by P. Ransome-Wallis. Hutchinson. 50s. [...] The most erudite locomotive engineer could not fail to excavate new knowledge from this remarkably comprehensive volume, [...]

Perhaps his erudite mind does not quite yet grasp how to transform his beloved scholarly explorations into effective papal politics.

Cruz was obviously analogizing Bernie Sanders to the Bolsheviks and Hillary Clinton to the Mensheviks. The oleaginous Texan is an erudite slyboots, but his history is off-kilter.

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