pundit

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: pun=dit

CIDE DICTIONARY

pundit, n. [Hind. pandit, Skr. pandita a learned man.].

 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.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

pundit, n.
1 (also pandit) a Hindu learned in Sanskrit and in the philosophy, religion, and jurisprudence of India.
2 often iron. a learned expert or teacher.

Derivative

punditry n.

Etymology

Hind. pandit f. Skr. pandita learned

THESAURUS

pundit

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

ROGET THESAURUS

pundit

Lawyer

N lawyer, attorney, legal counsel, counsel, counsellor, counsellor at law, attorney at law, jurist, legist, civilian, pundit, publicist, juris consult, legal adviser, advocate, barrister, barrister at law, King's or Queen's counsel, K, C, Q, C, silk gown, leader, sergeant-at-law, bencher, tubman, judge, bar, legal profession, bar association, association of trial lawyers, officer of the court, gentleman of the long robe, junior bar, outer bar, inner bar, equity draftsman, conveyancer, pleader, special pleader, solicitor, proctor, notary, notary public, scrivener, cursitor, writer, writer to the signet, S, S, C, limb of the law, pettifogger, vakil, legal beagle, legal secretary, legal assistant, law student, learned in the law, at the bar, forensic, esquire, esquired, banco regis.

Scholar

N scholar, connoisseur, savant, pundit, schoolman, professor, graduate, wrangler, academician, academist, master of arts, doctor, licentitate, gownsman, philosopher, master of math, scientist, clerk, sophist, sophister, linguist, glossolinguist, philologist, philologer, lexicographer, glossographer, grammarian, litterateur, literati, dilettanti, illuminati, cogniscenti, fellow, Hebraist, lexicologist, mullah, munshi, Sanskritish, sinologist, sinologue, Mezzofanti, admirable Crichton, Mecaenas, bookworm, helluo librorum, bibliophile, bibliomaniac, bluestocking, bas-bleu, bigwig, learned Theban, don, Artium Baccalaureus, Artium Magister, learned man, literary man, homo multarum literarum, man of learning, man of letters, man of education, man of genius, antiquarian, antiquary, archaeologist, sage, pedant, doctrinaire, pedagogue, Dr, Pangloss, pantologist, criminologist, schoolboy, learned, brought up at the feet of Gamaliel, he was a scholar and a ripe and good one, the manifold linguist.