English to Greek Meaning of savant - σοφός

Savant :

σοφός

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Definitions of savant in English

Noun(1) someone who has been admitted to membership in a scholarly field

Examples of savant in English

(1) Both he and his older sister Maria Anna ├ö├ç├┐Nannerl├ö├ç├û Mozart were child prodigies, but the world had never seen a musical savant like Wolfgang.(2) Beeckman was a savant with a wide range of scientific interests, and his influence on the younger man was considerable.(3) The very genre of the scientific autobiography is a 19 th-century invention: we learn about the lives of 18 th-century savants from eulogies, not confessions.(4) Gigerenzer seems to think that considered debate between these savants would permit a slower but better guided development of scientific psychology.(5) Towards the end of the nineteenth century, did not the savants declare that the only difference between the physical and chemical forces consists of the special rates of vibration of the etheric particles?(6) I wanted to link up what Brits were up to in the period 1600 to 1900 and what other cultures, people, savants and natural philosophers are doing to give a networked picture of the development of the sciences.(7) At first, with the support of international scientists including Thomas Jefferson, the nation's finest savants reckoned that the pendulum would set a fair and globally convincing standard.(8) Mersenne both kept in touch with savants all over Europe, and seems to have had a clear vision himself of what a new philosophy must consist in.(9) Baudin had sailed south from Timor, avoiding the continental coast, and then east to Tasmania, where he allowed his savants generous time to investigate the flora and fauna and to observe the indigenous population.(10) They're obsessed with systems, and they're good at systemizing, even when they don't happen to be mathematics professors or savants .(11) The episode shows how late-17th century savants were unanimous in their choice of Boyle and Newton as the two great icons of early-modern science.(12) It is not enough for a few savants to be privy to esoteric mathematical knowledge for that knowledge to be influential in a wider culture.(13) Maier is among an estimated 50 people in the world recognized as prodigious savants whose abilities are as remarkable as their limitations.(14) Inscriptions in both French and Latin were composed by the Petite Academie, a committee of savants that advised the Batiments du Roi on matters of allegory and erudition.(15) The process was begun with the savants who were sent by Napoleon to accumulate information for the multivolume Description de l' Egypte.(16) Among those on board were the equivalents of Baudin's savants - Flinders' own preferred term was ├ö├ç├┐scientific gentlemen├ö├ç├û.

Related Phrases of savant

(1) idiot savant ::

ηλίθιος σοφός

Related Phrases of savant

(1) idiot savant ::

ηλίθιος σοφός

Synonyms

Noun

1. intellectual ::

διανοούμενος

2. scholar ::

λόγιος

3. sage ::

ΣΟΦΌΣ

4. philosopher ::

φιλόσοφος

7. guru ::

γκουρού

8. master ::

κύριος

9. pundit ::

ινδολόγος

10. pandit ::

Pandit

Different Forms

savant, savants

Word Example from TV Shows

Ha. Are you kidding? He's like a SAVANT at organizing.

The Big Bang Theory Season 6, Episode 19

- That's incredible. - Yeah, she's kind of a Wheel SAVANT.

The Big Bang Theory Season 4, Episode 19

Examples of savant from TV Shows

Ha. Are you kidding? He's like a SAVANT at organizing.

The Big Bang Theory Season 6, Episode 19

- That's incredible. - Yeah, she's kind of a Wheel SAVANT.

The Big Bang Theory Season 4, Episode 19

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