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6 letters · 9 points in Scrabble
Meaning
noun someone who has been admitted to membership in a scholarly field
originBorrowed from French savant, from Latin sapiō. Doublet of sapient. Sense 3 is a clipping of idiot savant, literally ‘wise idiot’.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0