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polymath

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polymath
—polymathic, adj.
/pol"ee math'/, n.
a person of great learning in several fields of study; polyhistor.
[1615-25; < Gk polymathés learned, having learned much, equiv. to poly- POLY- + -mathes, adj. deriv. of manthánein to learn]

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