"Gaon" meaning in English

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        "5": "grandeur, majesty, genius",
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  "etymology_text": "From Hebrew גָּאוֹן (ga'ón, “grandeur, majesty, genius”).",
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          "text": "1991, Joseph Telushkin, Jewish Literacy http://books.google.com/books?ie=UTF-8&hl=en&id=5mR5jX70oqwC&pg=PA230&lpg=PA230&sig=efbu3LMM7kVUrIzfWghTlqOeIXQ\nThe Gaon also was distressed by the veneration the Hasidim accorded their rabbinic leaders, men whom the Gaon generally regarded as ignoramuses."
        },
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          "ref": "1996, Roger Friedland, Richard Hecht, To Rule Jerusalem http://books.google.com/books?ie=UTF-8&hl=en&id=h27UQhGY9nwC&pg=PA77&lpg=PA77&sig=f-awfG-HhWgq48JD6okq8b_8Vp8",
          "text": "Like the hasidim, he too refused the title of rabbi, adopting the ancient title of Gaon."
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          "text": "1997, Moshe Gil, A History of Palestine http://books.google.com/books?ie=UTF-8&hl=en&id=M0wUKoMJeccC&pg=PA531&lpg=PA531&sig=ffm2drYu_SPO-Cgn9eM32oW2rhM\nThe Gaon also mentions a letter he has received from Ḥasan as-ʻĀqūlī (al-ʻĀqūla, the ancient Aramaic name for Kūfa) undoubtedly one of the emigrants from Iraq to Egypt whom the Gaon knew.."
        }
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        "A sage of the Talmudic academies of Babylonia"
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      "ipa": "/ɡəˈ(ʔ)oʊn/"
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      "ipa": "/ɡɑːˈ(ʔ)oʊn/"
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      "ipa": "/ɡɔɪn/",
      "note": "Ashkenazi"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[ɡɔʏn]",
      "note": "Ashkenazi"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[ɡœʏn]",
      "note": "Ashkenazi"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈɡeɪɑn/",
      "note": "Anglicized"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈɡeɪən/",
      "note": "Anglicized"
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  "word": "Gaon"
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        }
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    },
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      "ipa": "/ɡɔɪn/",
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      "note": "Ashkenazi"
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      "note": "Ashkenazi"
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      "ipa": "/ˈɡeɪɑn/",
      "note": "Anglicized"
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  "word": "Gaon"
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