"erudite" meaning in English

See erudite in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Adjective

IPA: /ˈɛɹ.ʊ.daɪt/ [Received-Pronunciation], /ˈɛɹ.(j)u.daɪt/ [US], /ˈɛɹ.(j)ə.daɪt/ [US] Audio: en-us-erudite.ogg Forms: more erudite [comparative], most erudite [superlative]
Etymology: From Latin ērudītus, participle of ērudiō (“educate, train”), from e- (“out of”) + rudis (“rude, unskilled”). Doublet of erudit. Etymology templates: {{der|en|la|ērudītus}} Latin ērudītus, {{doublet|en|erudit}} Doublet of erudit Head templates: {{en-adj}} erudite (comparative more erudite, superlative most erudite)
  1. Learned, scholarly, with emphasis on knowledge gained from books. Categories (topical): People Synonyms: learned Related terms: eruditely, erudition, rude Translations (scholarly, learned): ерудиран (erudiran) (Bulgarian), начетен (načeten) (Bulgarian), erudit (Catalan), زانیار (zanyar) (Central Kurdish), 博學 (Chinese Mandarin), 博学 (bóxué) (Chinese Mandarin), 有學問 (Chinese Mandarin), 有学问 (yǒu xuéwèn) (Chinese Mandarin), 淵博 (Chinese Mandarin), 渊博 (yuānbó) (Chinese Mandarin), lærd (Danish), geleerd (Dutch), belezen (Dutch), erudiet (Dutch), lærdur (Faroese), oppinut (Finnish), sivistynyt (Finnish), érudit (French), erudito (Galician), belesen (German), gelehrt (German), gebildet (German), πολυμαθής (polymathís) [feminine, masculine] (Greek), λόγιος (lógios) [masculine] (Greek), חבר אוריינות (chavér orianút) [masculine] (Hebrew), művelt (Hungarian), léannta (Irish), erudito (Italian), ērudītus (Latin), на́читан (náčitan) [masculine] (Macedonian), у́чен (účen) [masculine] (Macedonian), ерудити́вен (eruditíven) [masculine] (Macedonian), lærd (Norwegian Bokmål), erudit (Occitan), با سواد (Persian), erudito (Portuguese), эруди́рованный (erudírovannyj) (Russian), начи́танный (načítannyj) (Russian), учёный (učónyj) (Russian), erudovaný (Slovak), erudito (Spanish), lärd (Swedish), matalisik (Tagalog), có học thức (Vietnamese), bác học (Vietnamese), לומדיש (lomdish) (Yiddish)
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Noun

IPA: /ˈɛɹ.ʊ.daɪt/ [Received-Pronunciation], /ˈɛɹ.(j)u.daɪt/ [US], /ˈɛɹ.(j)ə.daɪt/ [US] Audio: en-us-erudite.ogg Forms: erudites [plural]
Etymology: From Latin ērudītus, participle of ērudiō (“educate, train”), from e- (“out of”) + rudis (“rude, unskilled”). Doublet of erudit. Etymology templates: {{der|en|la|ērudītus}} Latin ērudītus, {{doublet|en|erudit}} Doublet of erudit Head templates: {{en-noun}} erudite (plural erudites)
  1. a learned or scholarly person
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Inflected forms

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          "ref": "1913, Edith Wharton, “Chapter 43”, in The Custom of the Country:",
          "text": "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.",
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          "ref": "1960 January, “New reading on railways”, in Trains Illustrated, page 26:",
          "text": "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, [...]",
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          "text": "Perhaps his erudite mind does not quite yet grasp how to transform his beloved scholarly explorations into effective papal politics.",
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          "text": "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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          "word": "belezen"
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          "word": "lærdur"
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          "word": "oppinut"
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          "code": "gl",
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          "sense": "scholarly, learned",
          "word": "belesen"
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          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "scholarly, learned",
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          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "scholarly, learned",
          "word": "gebildet"
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          "code": "el",
          "lang": "Greek",
          "roman": "polymathís",
          "sense": "scholarly, learned",
          "tags": [
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          "word": "πολυμαθής"
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          "code": "he",
          "lang": "Hebrew",
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          "sense": "scholarly, learned",
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          "word": "חבר אוריינות"
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          "lang": "Irish",
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          "code": "ckb",
          "lang": "Central Kurdish",
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          "lang": "Macedonian",
          "roman": "účen",
          "sense": "scholarly, learned",
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          "word": "у́чен"
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          "code": "fa",
          "lang": "Persian",
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          "word": "có học thức"
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          "text": "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, [...]",
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          "ref": "2015 November 1, Hendrik Hertzberg, “That G.O.P. Debate: Two Footnotes”, in The New Yorker:",
          "text": "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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      "code": "fa",
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      "word": "با سواد"
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      "code": "pt",
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      "word": "эруди́рованный"
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      "sense": "scholarly, learned",
      "word": "matalisik"
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      "word": "có học thức"
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