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erudite

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++朗文当代英语 5++LDOCE 5++朗文 5++er·u·dite /ˈerədaɪt/ adjective  INTELLIGENTshowing a lot of knowledge based on careful study 博学的,学问精深的 SYN learnederuditely adverberudition /ˌerəˈdɪʃən/ noun [uncountable]
Examples from the Corpus
eruditeAmong themselves, ecclesiastics have become eminently sophisticated and erudite.Gregarious, erudite and energetic, Brezzo could never be accused of thinking in small, ordinary ways.These are biographers who are imposingly erudite but never pedantic.He's erudite, enormously warm and most of all, a golfer.Many children with verbal processing difficulty go on to be-come gifted interpreters of literature or become erudite in philosophy or social sciences.His guttural utterances are accompanied by erudite subtitles.Accelerating violence and horror eventually hit maximum velocity and warp into nonsense, no matter how erudite the script."The Cunning Man" is an intricate and erudite work.
Origin erudite (1400-1500) Latin past participle of erudire to give instruction to, from rudis rude, uneducated
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erudite
erudite /ˈerədaɪt, ˈerʊdaɪt/ adjective
 Date: 1400-1500
 Language: Latin
 Origin: past participle of erudire 'to give instruction to', from rudis 'rude, uneducated'
showing a lot of knowledge based on careful study
   SYN  learned
—eruditely adverb
—erudition /ˌerəˈdɪʃən, ˌerʊˈdɪʃən/ noun [uncountable]


eru·diteBrE /ˈerudaɪt/ 🔊NAmE /ˈerudaɪt/ 🔊 adjective (formal) having or showing great knowledge that is gained from academic study 博学的;有学问的 SYN learned