erudite

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Pronunciation

• (RP) IPA: /ˈɛɹ.(j)ʊ.daɪt/
• (America) IPA: /ˈɛɹ.(j)u.daɪt/, IPA: /ˈɛɹ.(j)ə.daɪt/

Adjective

erudite

1. Learned, scholarly, with emphasis on knowledge gained from books.
   • 1850, Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter, Ch. XII:

     At all events, if it involved any secret information in regard to old Roger Chillingworth, it was in a tongue unknown to the erudite clergyman, and did but increase the bewilderment of his mind.

   • 1913, Edith Wharton, The Custom of the Country, ch. 43:

     Elmer Moffatt had been magnificent, rolling out his alternating effects of humour and pathos, stirring his audience by moving references to the Blue and the Gray, convulsing them by a new version of Washington and the Cherry Tree . . ., dazzling them by his erudite allusions and apt quotations.

   • 2006, Jeff Israely, "[http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,901060925-1535767,00.html Preaching Controversy]," Time, 17 Sept.:

     Perhaps his erudite mind does not quite yet grasp how to transform his beloved scholarly explorations into effective papal politics.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:learned

Translations

• French: érudit
• German: belesen, gelehrt, gebildet
• Italian: erudito
• Portuguese: erudito
• Russian: эруди́рованный
• Spanish: erudito

Noun

erudite (plural erudites)

1. a learned or scholarly person

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