polymath
polymath
Definition
poly·math (päl′ə mat̸h′)
noun
a person of great and diversified learning
Etymology: < Gr polymathēs, knowing much < poly-, poly- + manthanein, learn: see mathematical
polymath
Usage Examples
Preposition: of
- century: I'll end with a story about one of my favorite people - Blase Pascal, a French polymath of the 17 th Century.
Adjective modifier
- Victorian: Humphrey, " Lord Rayleigh - the last of the great Victorian polymaths " , Bull.
- great: Humphrey, " Lord Rayleigh - the last of the great Victorian polymaths " , Bull.
- true: Wendy is still around today, and is a true polymath, working in all kinds of creative and scientific fields.
- French: I'll end with a story about one of my favorite people - Blase Pascal, a French polymath of the 17 th Century.
- genuine: He really was a most unusual man a genuine polymath.
- encyclopedic: Aristotle was an encyclopedic polymath, an all time intellect.
Noun used with modifier
- century: The Gorsedd, as we know it today, was founded by a late eighteenth century Welsh polymath called Edward Williams.
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