pundit

n. one of great learning, expert; educated Brahman (in India)

Pundit or Pundant may refer to:Pundit (expert), an expert or opinion-leader who analyzes events in his or her area of expertise in the popular mediaPundit (explorer), a 19th century term to denote native surveyors who explored regions to the north of India for the British EmpirePundit (India) or pandit, a master of traditional religious poetry and/or traditional musicPandit, in India, a priest, usually a brahmin, but sometimes a kshatriya
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Noun
1. someone who has been admitted to membership in a scholarly field
(synonym) initiate, learned person, savant
(hypernym) scholar, scholarly person, student
(hyponym) polymath

(n.)
A learned man; a teacher; esp., a Brahman versed in the Sanskrit language, and in the science, laws, and religion of the Hindoos; in Cashmere, any clerk or native official.
  

Synonyms and related words:
Brahman, Ramwat, abecedarian, academician, aficionado, amateur, authority, bairagi, bashara, bhikhari, bhikshu, bookman, buff, certified teacher, classicist, clerk, colossus of knowledge, connoisseur, critic, dilettante, docent, doctor, dominie, don, educationist, educator, expert, fan, fellow, freak, genius, giant of learning, guide, guru, humanist, instructor, learned clerk, learned man, literary man, litterateur, lover of learning, maestro, man of learning, man of letters, master, mastermind, melamed, mentor, mine of information, mullah, nut, pandit, pedagogist, pedagogue, philologist, philologue, philomath, philosophe, philosopher, polyhistor, polymath, preceptor, professor, pujari, purohit, rabbi, sannyasi, savant, scholar, scholastic, schoolkeeper, schoolman, schoolmaster, schoolteacher, specialist, starets, student, teacher, technical expert, technician, vairagi, walking encyclopedia, yogi, yogin