Dictionary Definition
pundit n : someone who has been admitted to
membership in a scholarly field [syn: initiate, learned
person, savant]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Etymology
From Hindi पण्डित, from Sanskrit.Pronunciation
- /ˈpʌndɪt/
- Rhymes: -ʌndɪt
Noun
Translations
a Hindu scholar
- Hungarian: pandit
a scholar, teacher, or learned person
- Hungarian: írástudó
an expert
- Hungarian: szakértő, specialista
Extensive Definition
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 media
- Pundit (explorer), a 19th century term to denote native surveyors who explored regions to the north of India for the British Empire
- Pandit, in India, a scholar or expert, especially of traditional Indian law, philosophy, or music
Synonyms, Antonyms 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