savant
noun
a person of profound or extensive learning; learned scholar.
savante
-
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
But she was not a savante; he simply forbade her to read what he deemed it useless that she should know.
From Doctor Pascal by Mary J. (Mary Jane) Serrano
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
She was called the idole of the Temple, and her taste for letters gave her also the title of Minerve savante.
From The Women of the French Salons by Amelia Ruth Gere Mason
Oh, because of things that I should find it hard to explain to you; I am not a savante.
From Doctor Pascal by Mary J. (Mary Jane) Serrano
