pundit Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun someone who has been admitted to membership in a scholarly field
    initiate; savant; learned person.

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Pun"dit noun
Etymology
Hind. pandit, Skr. pandita a learned man.
Definitions
  1. 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. Written also pandit. India

Webster 1913