learned person

1. 1.

   someone who has been admitted to membership in a scholarly field

   Synonymsinitiatepunditsavant

   Broaderscholar

   Narrowerpolymath

Questions about learned person

What does learned person mean?

learned person means "someone who has been admitted to membership in a scholarly field".

What is another word for learned person?

Close synonyms include initiate, pundit, savant. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is learned person a common word?

learned person is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.