'Pundit' definitions:
Definition of 'pundit'
From: WordNet
noun
Someone who has been admitted to membership in a scholarly field [syn: initiate, learned person, pundit, savant]
Definition of 'Pundit'
From: GCIDE
- Pundit \Pun"dit\, 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. [Written also pandit.] [India] [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'pundit'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- abecedarian,
- academician,
- aficionado,
- amateur,
- authority,
- bairagi,
- bashara,
- bhikhari,
- bhikshu,
- bookman,
- Brahman,
- 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,
- Ramwat,
- sannyasi,
- savant,
- scholar,
- scholastic,
- schoolkeeper,
- schoolman,
- schoolmaster,
- schoolteacher,
- specialist,
- starets,
- student,
- teacher,
- technical expert,
- technician,
- vairagi,
- walking encyclopedia,
- yogi,
- yogin