erudition
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yʊˈdɪʃ noun
knowledge acquired by study, research, etc.; learning; scholarship.
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| —adj | |
| having or showing extensive scholarship; learned | |
| [C15: from Latin ērudītus, from ērudīre to polish, from | |
| 'eruditely | |
| —adv | |
| erudition | |
| —n | |
| 'eruditeness | |
| —n | |
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Erudition
is always a great word to know.
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| an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle. |
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
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Word Origin & History
erudition
c.1400, from L. eruditionem, noun of action from erudire (see erudite).
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Example sentences
Impressed with his erudition on a wide range of topics, people would often ask him where he got his education.
But there is nothing so absurd as the erudition which in our days identifies and confuses gods of different nations.
He mixed erudition with epigrammatic wit and colorful vignettes.
But his looser sketches are the real masterpieces of visual erudition.
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