
Meaning of PUNDIT
Pronunciation: | | 'pundit
|
WordNet Dictionary |
|
| Definition: | | [n] someone who has been admitted to membership in a scholarly field |
|
| Websites: | |
|
|
| Synonyms: | | initiate, learned person, savant |
|
| See Also: | | polymath, scholar, scholarly person, student | |
Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
|
| Definition: | | \Pun"dit\, n. [Hind. pandit, Skr. pandita a learned man.]
A learned man; a teacher; esp., a Brahman versed in the
Sanskrit language, and in the science, laws, and religion of
the Hindoos; in Cashmere, any clerk or native official.
[Written also {pandit}.] [India]
|
|
| Websites: | |
|
|
|
|