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Definition

having or showing deep scholarly knowledge

She is erudite and engaging.

erudite = very knowledgeable

She is an erudite professor.

erudite = having or showing deep scholarly knowledge

"I used to be erudite," he says out loud.
Margaret Atwood -- Oryx and Crake

erudite = full of scholarly knowledge

He displayed his erudition,
Gustave Flaubert -- Madame Bovary

erudition = deep scholarly knowledge

(editor's note: The suffix "-tion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in action, education, and observation.)

She had a genial, erudite face and a pleasingly fluid voice.
Dan Brown -- The Da Vinci Code

erudite = scholarly

But even erudition seemed to be his enemy today.
Dan Brown -- Angels & Demons

erudition = having or showing profound knowledge

Lee said quietly, "So young to be so erudite."
John Steinbeck -- East of Eden

erudite = having or showing deep scholarly knowledge

...though he be erudite, it can befall him to mumble nothing but banalities;
John Le Carre -- The Spy Who Came In From The Cold

erudite = having or showing deep scholarly knowledge

Here the pale clergyman piled up his library, rich with parchment-bound folios of the Fathers, and the lore of Rabbis, and monkish erudition,
Nathaniel Hawthorne -- The Scarlet Letter

erudition = deep scholarly knowledge

You can think like the Erudite, too.
Veronica Roth -- Insurgent

erudite = people with deep scholarly knowledge

Young L's erudition was astonishing.
Malcolm Gladwell -- Outliers

erudition = deep scholarly knowledge

They bent before this tornado of erudition.
Sinclair Lewis -- Arrowsmith

erudition = deep scholarly knowledge

Gringoire, without exactly understanding what the connection could be between his address and this question, was not sorry to display his erudition.
Victor Hugo -- The Hunchback of Notre Dame

erudition = deep scholarly knowledge

'We were both erudite, weren't we?
Robert Ludlum -- The Bourne Supremacy

erudite = having or showing deep scholarly knowledge

There is no fool like an educated fool, and Simon will have to trot out his own European credentials, and flourish his erudition, and justify himself.
Margaret Atwood -- Alias Grace

erudition = deep scholarly knowledge

My erudite friend from Cambodia ... doesn't climb over fences with his foot in cement at three o'clock in the morning unless he thinks he has to.
Robert Ludlum -- The Bourne Ultimatum

erudite = profoundly knowledgeable

I don't know anything about wars. I don't think even the most erudite scholars do. I think you have to fight one, to know it.
Rick Bragg -- All Over but the Shoutin'

erudite = having deep scholarly knowledge

At another set of tables, the Erudite chatter over books and newspapers, in constant pursuit of knowledge.
Veronica Roth -- Divergent

erudite = the group of people who most prize deep scholarly knowledge

... because getting to Lonesome Dove was such a hot, exhausting business. The few people who accomplished it were in no mood to stop and study erudite signs.
Larry McMurtry -- Lonesome Dove

erudite = showing deep scholarly knowledge

Disney Hall patrons were straining during intermission to hear the erudite observations of my sophisticated friend Nathaniel, who has a way to go but is coming along nicely.
Steve Lopez -- The Soloist

erudite = showing deep scholarly knowledge

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