sa|vant

sa|vant
sa|vant «suh VAHNT, SAV uhnt; French sa vahn», noun, plural -vants « French -vahn».
1. a man of learning: »

This seemed to make him a savant on subjects political (Atlantic). Saint-Simon divided mankind into three classes: the savants, the propertied, and the unpropertied (Edmund Wilson).

 SYNONYM(S): sage, scholar.
2. autistic savant, historically called idiot savant; a person with prodigious memory or other special mental ability along with some developmental disability.
╂[< Old French savant, present participle of savoir know < Vulgar Latin sapēre, for Latin sapere be wise]

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