savant
noun
a person of profound or extensive learning; learned scholar.
savante
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a word derived from
savant.
Example Sentences
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It is a supremely deductive brain, but it resembles an idiot savante.
From "I, Robot" by Isaac Asimov
Then your train clattered into the toy station, and you held my hand for a moment and said with a kind smile, 'Au revoir, petite savante, icibas.'
From Atlantic Classics, Second Series by Jane Addams
She is not really beautiful at all, but her husband assures me constantly that she is "une femme savante."
From Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan, Volume I (of 2) Including a Summer in the Upper Karun Region and a Visit to the Nestorian Rayahs by Isabella L. (Isabella Lucy) Bird
Armande is a femme savante, and Henriette a "thorough woman."
From Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol. 1 A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer
Her manner is soft and feminine, and though a savante, without any declared pretensions.
From Letters of Horace Walpole — Volume II by Horace Walpole
