name
Meaning 1
A surname.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
savant
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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General-American: /sæˈvɑnt/
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General-American: /səˈvɑnt/ most common
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General-American: /səˈvɑn/
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Received-Pronunciation: /ˈsæv.ənt/
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Received-Pronunciation: /ˈsæv.ɒnt/
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Received-Pronunciation: /səˈvɑːnt/
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Received-Pronunciation: /səˈvɒnt/ most common
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Received-Pronunciation: /səˈvɒn/
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Southern-England: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
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rhymes with (General American) -ɑnt
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CMU ARPABET: S AH0 V AA1 N T Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
noun
Meaning 2
A person of learning, especially one who is versed in literature or science.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 3
A person who is considered eminent because of their achievements.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
Meaning 4
A person with or without significant mental disabilities who is very gifted in one area of activity, such as playing the piano or mental arithmetic.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: idiot savant
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 5
someone who has been admitted to membership in a scholarly field
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: initiate, learned person, pundit
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: scholar, scholarly person, bookman, student
Narrower terms: polymath
History
Etymology
Borrowed from French savant, from Latin sapiō. Doublet of sapient. Sense 3 is a clipping of idiot savant, literally ‘wise idiot’.
Across languages
Translations
16 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Arabic: عَالِم (ʕālim) — a person of learning
- Bulgarian: учен (učen) — a person of learning
- Chinese Mandarin: 学者 (xuézhě) — a person of learning
- Finnish: oppinut — a person of learning
- German: Gelehrter — a person of learning
- German: Gelehrte — a person of learning
- Italian: saggio — a person of learning
- Polish: sawant — a person of learning
- Polish: sawantka — a person of learning
- Romanian: savant — a person of learning
- Romanian: învățat — a person of learning
- Romanian: erudit — a person of learning
- Vietnamese: học giả — a person of learning
- Polish: sawant — a person eminent for their achievements
- Polish: sawantka — a person eminent for their achievements
- Spanish: savant — a person eminent for their achievements