Meaning

1 senses

  1. A learned or scholarly person

Examples

4 sentences

  1. I have no ambition to outshine him or any other erudite.

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  2. He is an erudite person.

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  3. Tom is without doubt the most erudite squirrel in the world, which is why he wears specs.

    deTom ist zweifellos das gebildetste Eichhörnchen auf der Welt. Deswegen trägt er auch eine Brille.

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  4. The Chinese language is full of idioms that are commonly used in texts of different genres as an erudite style of writing.

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Origin

From Latin ērudītus, participle of ērudiō (“educate, train”), from e- (“out of”) + rudis (

From Latin ērudītus, participle of ērudiō (“educate, train”), from e- (“out of”) + rudis (“rude, unskilled”). Doublet of erudit.

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Forms

plural: erudites
Singularerudite
Pluralerudites

regular

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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