erudition
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[edit] Etymology
From Latin eruditio (“an instructing, learning, erudition”), from erudire (“to instruct, educate, cultivate”, literally “free from rudeness”), from e (“out”) + rudis (“rude”).
[edit] Noun
erudition (uncountable)
- Profound knowledge, especially that based on learning and scholarship.
[edit] Synonyms
- (profound knowledge): knowledge, information, learning, lore, scholarship, scholarism
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[edit] Translations
profound knowledge, especially that based on learning and scholarship
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[edit] External links
- erudition in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
- erudition in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
- erudition at OneLook Dictionary Search
