savant
Plural: savants
Noun
- A person of profound learning or exceptional intellectual ability.
- someone who has been admitted to membership in a scholarly field
- A person of learning, especially one who is versed in literature or science.
- A person who is considered eminent because of their achievements.
- A person with or without significant mental disabilities who is very gifted in one area of activity, such as playing the piano or mental arithmetic.
Examples
- She was a Scrabble savant, always finding the most obscure and high-scoring words.
Origin / Etymology
Borrowed from French savant, from Latin sapiō. Doublet of sapient. Sense 3 is a clipping of idiot savant, literally ‘wise idiot’.
Scrabble Score: 9
savant: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordsavant: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
savant: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary
Words With Friends Score: 11
savant: valid Words With Friends Word