pundit – מילון אנגלי-אנגלי
pundit
n.
one of great learning, expert; critic, authority; educated Brahman (in India)
Pundit
A
pundit (sometimes also called a
talking head) is a person who offers to
mass media their opinion or commentary on a particular subject area (most typically
political analysis, the
social sciences,
technology or
sport) on which they are
knowledgeable (or can at least appear to be knowledgeable), or considered a in said area. The term has been increasingly applied to popular media personalities. In certain cases, it may be used in a
derogatory manner as well, as the political equivalent of
ideologue.
pundit
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
Pundit
(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.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), edited by Noah Porter.
About
pundit
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
Source: Moby Thesaurus, which is part of the
Moby Project created by Grady Ward. In 1996 Grady Ward placed this thesaurus in the public domain.
