Meaning of erudition | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Profound knowledge acquired from learning and scholarship.
   countable, uncountable
2. culture
3. The refinement, polish and knowledge that education confers.
   countable, uncountable
4. knowledge
5. cultivation (of plants)
6. politeness, respect

Equivalents

Examples

“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.”

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