Erudition
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /ˌɛɹʊˈdɪʃən/ · Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Erudition is a noun meaning Profound knowledge acquired from learning and scholarship.
Meaning
Profound knowledge acquired from learning and scholarship.
More Meanings
- The refinement, polish and knowledge that education confers.
Example Sentences
Professor Archimedes Q. Porter was their only immediate anxiety. Fully assured in his own mind that his daughter had been picked up by a passing steamer, he gave over the last vestige of apprehension concerning her welfare, and devoted his giant intellect solely to the consideration of those momentous and abstruse scientific problems which he considered the only proper food for thought in one of his erudition.
Word Forms
- eruditions
Synonyms for erudition
Depending on context, synonyms include knowledge, information, learning, lore, scholarship, scholarism.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include learnedness, learning, scholarship, lore, encyclopedism, bookmanship.
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