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pundit

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pun·dit  (pndt)
n.
1. A source of opinion; a critic: a political pundit.
2. A learned person.
3. Hinduism Variant of pandit.

[Hindi pait, learned man, from Sanskrit paita, learned, scholar, perhaps of Dravidian origin.]

pundit·ry n.

pundit
Noun
1. an expert on a subject who often speaks or writes about it for a non-specialist audience: Spain's leading sports pundit, who hosts two TV programmes
2. a Hindu scholar learned in Sanskrit, religion, philosophy, or law [Hindi pandit]
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.pundit - someone who has been admitted to membership in a scholarly field
polymath - a person of great and varied learning
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

pundit
noun expert, guru, maestro, buff (informal) wonk (informal) fundi S. African one of the cognoscenti, (self-appointed) expert or authority
Translations
pundit [ˈpʌndɪt] nexperto/a
pundit [ˈpʌndɪt] nindividu m qui pontifie, pontife m
pundit [ˈpʌndɪt] nExperte m, Expertin f
pundit [ˈpʌndɪt] nsapientone/a


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Then Mahbub Ali rolled across the serai to the Gate of the Harpies who paint their eyes and trap the stranger, and was at some pains to call on the one girl who, he had reason to believe, was a particular friend of a smooth-faced Kashmiri pundit who had waylaid his simple Balti in the matter of the telegrams.
 
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