"polymath" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /ˈpɒlɪmæθ/ [Received-Pronunciation], /ˈpɑliˌmæθ/ [General-American], /ˈpɑlɪmæθ/ [General-American] Audio: en-us-polymath.ogg Forms: polymaths [plural]
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek πολυμαθής (polumathḗs, “having learnt much”), first attested in 1624. From πολύς (polús, “much”) + μανθάνω (manthánō, “to learn”). Compare opsimath, philomath, polyhistor, polymathic, polymathist, and polymathy. By surface analysis, poly- + math. Etymology templates: {{root|en|ine-pro|*pleh₁-}}, {{lbor|en|grc|πολυμαθής|t=having learnt much}} Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek πολυμαθής (polumathḗs, “having learnt much”), {{surf|en|poly-|math}} By surface analysis, poly- + math Head templates: {{en-noun}} polymath (plural polymaths)
  1. A person with extraordinarily broad and comprehensive knowledge. Wikipedia link: polymath Categories (topical): People Synonyms: polyhistor, Renaissance man, polumathe, polymathe [both 17th century] Derived forms: polymathic Related terms: automath, polymathy, polymathist Coordinate_terms: factotum, handyman, jack of all trades, sciolist Translations (person with extraordinarily broad and comprehensive knowledge): πολυΐστωρ (poluḯstōr) [masculine] (Ancient Greek), عَلَّامَة (ʕallāma) (Arabic), بحر العلوم (Arabic), 學識淵博的人 (Chinese Mandarin), 学识渊博的人 (xuéshí yuānbó de rén) (Chinese Mandarin), 博學的人 (Chinese Mandarin), 博学的人 (bóxué de rén) (Chinese Mandarin), renesanční člověk [masculine] (Czech), polyhistor [masculine] (Czech), veelweter [masculine] (Dutch), alleskunner [masculine] (Dutch), renaissancemens [masculine] (Dutch), monitietäjä (Finnish), polyhistori (Finnish), yleisnero (Finnish), polymathe [feminine, masculine] (French), homme de la Renaissance [masculine] (French), polímata [feminine, masculine] (Galician), Polyhistor [masculine] (German), Universalgelehrter [masculine] (German), πολυμαθής (polymathís) [masculine] (Greek), fjölfræðingur (Icelandic), erudito [masculine] (Italian), uomo universale [masculine] (Italian), polimate [feminine, masculine] (Italian), polimata [feminine, masculine] (Italian), 博識者 (hakushikisha) (Japanese), homō ūniversālis [masculine] (Latin), енциклопеди́ст (enciklopedíst) [masculine] (Macedonian), еруди́т (erudít) [masculine] (Macedonian), polimata [feminine, masculine] (Occitan), علامه (allame) (Ottoman Turkish), همهچیزدان (hame-čizdân) (Persian), پردانش (porrdâneš) (Persian), człowiek renesansu [masculine] (Polish), encyklopedysta [masculine] (Polish), uczony [masculine] (Polish), polihistor [masculine] (Polish), polimat [masculine] (Polish), polímata [feminine, masculine] (Portuguese), polímato [masculine] (Portuguese), эруди́т (erudít) [masculine] (Russian), учёный (učónyj) [masculine] (Russian), polihistor [masculine] (Serbo-Croatian), spertu [masculine] (Sicilian), pulìmatu [masculine] (Sicilian), pulìmata [feminine, masculine] (Sicilian), polímata [feminine, masculine] (Spanish), polyhistor [common-gender] (Swedish), universalbegåvning [common-gender] (Swedish), universalsnille [neuter] (Swedish), universalgeni [neuter] (Swedish), allame (Turkish), ئەللامە (ellame) (Uyghur)

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      "word": "handyman"
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      "word": "jack of all trades"
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      "word": "sciolist"
    }
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      "word": "polymathic"
    }
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      "word": "polymathy"
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    }
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        "Terms with French translations",
        "Terms with Galician translations",
        "Terms with German translations",
        "Terms with Greek translations",
        "Terms with Icelandic translations",
        "Terms with Italian translations",
        "Terms with Japanese translations",
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        "Terms with Macedonian translations",
        "Terms with Mandarin translations",
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        "Terms with Ottoman Turkish translations",
        "Terms with Persian translations",
        "Terms with Polish translations",
        "Terms with Portuguese translations",
        "Terms with Russian translations",
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        "Terms with Sicilian translations",
        "Terms with Spanish translations",
        "Terms with Swedish translations",
        "Terms with Turkish translations",
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          "ref": "1624, Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy (2ⁿᵈ edn.), p.6",
          "text": "To be thought and held Polumathes and Polihistors."
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        {
          "ref": "2021 December 29, Stephen Roberts, “Stories and facts behind railway plaques”, in RAIL, number 947, page 56:",
          "text": "A bit of a polymath, he was crucial in the early development of the railways in this country.",
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      "tags": [
        "masculine"
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      "sense": "person with extraordinarily broad and comprehensive knowledge",
      "word": "عَلَّامَة"
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      "sense": "person with extraordinarily broad and comprehensive knowledge",
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      "sense": "person with extraordinarily broad and comprehensive knowledge",
      "word": "學識淵博的人"
    },
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      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "xuéshí yuānbó de rén",
      "sense": "person with extraordinarily broad and comprehensive knowledge",
      "word": "学识渊博的人"
    },
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      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "person with extraordinarily broad and comprehensive knowledge",
      "word": "博學的人"
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      "roman": "bóxué de rén",
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    },
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      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "person with extraordinarily broad and comprehensive knowledge",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "polyhistor"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "person with extraordinarily broad and comprehensive knowledge",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "veelweter"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "person with extraordinarily broad and comprehensive knowledge",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "alleskunner"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "person with extraordinarily broad and comprehensive knowledge",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
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      "word": "renaissancemens"
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    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "person with extraordinarily broad and comprehensive knowledge",
      "word": "monitietäjä"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "person with extraordinarily broad and comprehensive knowledge",
      "word": "polyhistori"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "person with extraordinarily broad and comprehensive knowledge",
      "word": "yleisnero"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "person with extraordinarily broad and comprehensive knowledge",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "polymathe"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "person with extraordinarily broad and comprehensive knowledge",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "homme de la Renaissance"
    },
    {
      "code": "gl",
      "lang": "Galician",
      "sense": "person with extraordinarily broad and comprehensive knowledge",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "polímata"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "person with extraordinarily broad and comprehensive knowledge",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "Polyhistor"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "person with extraordinarily broad and comprehensive knowledge",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "Universalgelehrter"
    },
    {
      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "roman": "polymathís",
      "sense": "person with extraordinarily broad and comprehensive knowledge",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "πολυμαθής"
    },
    {
      "code": "is",
      "lang": "Icelandic",
      "sense": "person with extraordinarily broad and comprehensive knowledge",
      "word": "fjölfræðingur"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "person with extraordinarily broad and comprehensive knowledge",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "erudito"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "person with extraordinarily broad and comprehensive knowledge",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "uomo universale"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "person with extraordinarily broad and comprehensive knowledge",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "polimate"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "person with extraordinarily broad and comprehensive knowledge",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "polimata"
    },
    {
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "hakushikisha",
      "sense": "person with extraordinarily broad and comprehensive knowledge",
      "word": "博識者"
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    {
      "code": "la",
      "lang": "Latin",
      "sense": "person with extraordinarily broad and comprehensive knowledge",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
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      "word": "homō ūniversālis"
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      "code": "mk",
      "lang": "Macedonian",
      "roman": "enciklopedíst",
      "sense": "person with extraordinarily broad and comprehensive knowledge",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "енциклопеди́ст"
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      "code": "mk",
      "lang": "Macedonian",
      "roman": "erudít",
      "sense": "person with extraordinarily broad and comprehensive knowledge",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "еруди́т"
    },
    {
      "code": "oc",
      "lang": "Occitan",
      "sense": "person with extraordinarily broad and comprehensive knowledge",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "polimata"
    },
    {
      "code": "ota",
      "lang": "Ottoman Turkish",
      "roman": "allame",
      "sense": "person with extraordinarily broad and comprehensive knowledge",
      "word": "علامه"
    },
    {
      "code": "fa",
      "lang": "Persian",
      "roman": "hame-čizdân",
      "sense": "person with extraordinarily broad and comprehensive knowledge",
      "word": "همهچیزدان"
    },
    {
      "code": "fa",
      "lang": "Persian",
      "roman": "porrdâneš",
      "sense": "person with extraordinarily broad and comprehensive knowledge",
      "word": "پردانش"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "person with extraordinarily broad and comprehensive knowledge",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "człowiek renesansu"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "person with extraordinarily broad and comprehensive knowledge",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "encyklopedysta"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "person with extraordinarily broad and comprehensive knowledge",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "uczony"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "person with extraordinarily broad and comprehensive knowledge",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "polihistor"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "person with extraordinarily broad and comprehensive knowledge",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "polimat"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "person with extraordinarily broad and comprehensive knowledge",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "polímata"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "person with extraordinarily broad and comprehensive knowledge",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "polímato"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "erudít",
      "sense": "person with extraordinarily broad and comprehensive knowledge",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "эруди́т"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "učónyj",
      "sense": "person with extraordinarily broad and comprehensive knowledge",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "учёный"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "person with extraordinarily broad and comprehensive knowledge",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "polihistor"
    },
    {
      "code": "scn",
      "lang": "Sicilian",
      "sense": "person with extraordinarily broad and comprehensive knowledge",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "spertu"
    },
    {
      "code": "scn",
      "lang": "Sicilian",
      "sense": "person with extraordinarily broad and comprehensive knowledge",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "pulìmatu"
    },
    {
      "code": "scn",
      "lang": "Sicilian",
      "sense": "person with extraordinarily broad and comprehensive knowledge",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "pulìmata"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "person with extraordinarily broad and comprehensive knowledge",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "polímata"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "person with extraordinarily broad and comprehensive knowledge",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "polyhistor"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "person with extraordinarily broad and comprehensive knowledge",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "universalbegåvning"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "person with extraordinarily broad and comprehensive knowledge",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "universalsnille"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "person with extraordinarily broad and comprehensive knowledge",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
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      "word": "universalgeni"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "person with extraordinarily broad and comprehensive knowledge",
      "word": "allame"
    },
    {
      "code": "ug",
      "lang": "Uyghur",
      "roman": "ellame",
      "sense": "person with extraordinarily broad and comprehensive knowledge",
      "word": "ئەللامە"
    }
  ],
  "word": "polymath"
}

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