scholarly person vs savant

savant vs scholarly person

scholarly person and savant both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
scholarly person	Yes	No	No	No
savant	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, savant is a hyponym of scholarly person; that is, savant is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than scholarly person:

scholarly person: a learned person; someone who by long study has gained mastery in one or more disciplines
savant: someone who has been admitted to membership in a scholarly field

Other hyponyms of scholarly person include academician, schoolman, alum, grad, graduate, Arabist, bibliographer, bibliophile, book lover, booklover, Cabalist, Kabbalist, doctor, Dr., goliard, historian, historiographer, humanist, initiate, learned person, pundit, Islamist, licentiate, Masorete, Masorite, Massorete, master, mujtihad, musicologist, bookworm, pedant, scholastic, philomath, philosopher, post doc, postdoc, reader, Renaissance man, generalist, Renaissance man, salutatorian, salutatory speaker, scholiast, medieval Schoolman, Schoolman, Shakespearean, Shakespearian, Sinologist, theologian, theologiser, theologist, theologizer, valedictorian, valedictory speaker, Vedist.

scholarly person (noun)	savant (noun)
a learned person; someone who by long study has gained mastery in one or more disciplines	someone who has been admitted to membership in a scholarly field

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