pundit

pun·dit  (pndt)

n.

1. A source of opinion; a critic: a political pundit.

2. A learned person.

3. Hinduism Variant of pandit.

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

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pundit·ry n.

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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]

Thesaurus

Noun

1.

pundit - someone who has been admitted to membership in a scholarly field learned person, savant, initiate 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

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pundit

noun expert, guru, maestro, buff (informal) wonk (informal) fundi S. African one of the cognoscenti, (self-appointed) expert or authority

Translations

pundit [ˈpʌndɪt] n → experto/a

pundit [ˈpʌndɪt] n → individu m qui pontifie, pontife m

pundit [ˈpʌndɪt] n → Experte m, Expertin f

pundit [ˈpʌndɪt] n → sapientone/a