erudition
Collocations
4ADJ.
complex, refined
VERB + ERUDITION
characterized, sparkled
ERUDITION + NOUN
amount, conversation, foliage, modesty
PREP.
than, with
Definitions
noun
Profound knowledge acquired from learning and scholarship.
Professor Archimedes Q. Porter was their only immediate anxiety. Fully assured in his own mind that his daughter had been picked up by a passing steamer, he gave over the last vestige of apprehension concerning her welfare, and devoted his giant intellect solely to the consideration of those momentous and abstruse scientific problems which he considered the only proper food for thought in one of his erudition.
The refinement, polish and knowledge that education confers.
Thesaurus
Synonyms
noun — profound scholarly knowledge
- eruditeness
- learnedness
- learning
- scholarship
- encyclopedism
- encyclopaedism
Antonyms
Idioms & Phrases
Example Bank
6Professor Archimedes Q. Porter was their only immediate anxiety. Fully assured in his own mind that his daughter had been picked up by a passing steamer, he gave over the last vestige of apprehension
WiktionaryErudition can produce foliage without bearing fruit.
Tatoeba · #918847My brothers will be greatly loved by our citizens because of their erudition and modesty.
Tatoeba · #2803377Hanako impressed the guests no less by her exotic beauty and elegance than by her erudition and refined conversation.
Tatoeba · #3565098Tom is a man of erudition.
Tatoeba · #9031384Erudition doesn't amount to wisdom.
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