polymath
pronunciation
How to pronounce polymath in British English:
UK [ˈpɒlimæθ]
How to pronounce polymath in American English:
US [ˈpɑlimæθ]
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- Noun:
- a person of great and varied learning
Word Origin
- polymath
- polymath: see mathematics
- polymath (n.)
- 1620s, from Greek polymathes "having learned much, knowing much," from polys "much" (see poly-) + root of manthanein "to learn" (see mathematic).
Example
- 1. Which is why a polymath , such as myself .
- 2. But thomas jefferson , the polymath us president , was hardly a slouch when it came to reading either , bequeathing his collection of 6400 books to what became the library of congress .
- 3. The informal estimate of the polymath team is that the proportion of foreign winners is roughly in line with the proportion of foreign subscribers .
- 4. Joshua foer : when the royal society was founded in 1660 , it was still possible for an educated person , a polymath , actually to know something about everything .
- 5. If charles darwin is the father of modern biology , then the father of modern intelligence testing is his cousin , francis galton statistician , polymath and founder of eugenics .