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English

Noun

profound knowledge, especially that based on learning and scholarship

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Bulgarian: {{t+|bg|ерудиция|sc=Cyrl}}
French:
Hungarian: ,

Polish:
Romanian: erudiţie
Russian: эрудиция
Spanish: {{t+|es|erudición|f}}

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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English erudition \er`u*di"tion\ ([e^]r`[-u]*d[i^]sh"[u^]n), n. [L.
eruditio: cf. F. ['e]rudition.]
The act of instructing; the result of thorough instruction;
the state of being erudite or learned; the acquisitions
gained by extensive reading or study; particularly, learning
in literature or criticism, as distinct from the sciences;
scholarship.
[1913 Webster]

The management of a young lady's person is not be
overlooked, but the erudition of her mind is much more
to be regarded. --Steele.
[1913 Webster]

The gay young gentleman whose erudition sat so easily
upon him. --Macaulay.

Syn: Literature; learning. See Literature.
[1913 Webster]

WordNet erudition
n : profound scholarly knowledge [syn: eruditeness, learnedness,
learning, scholarship, encyclopedism, encyclopaedism]

Moby Dictionary
Sophia , bibliolatry , bibliomania , bluestockingism , book learning ,
book madness , bookiness , bookishness , booklore , broad-mindedness ,
broadening the mind , classical scholarship , classicism ,
cultivation , culture , depth , donnishness , education , eruditeness ,
good understanding , humanism , humanistic scholarship ,
intellectual acquirement , intellectualism , intellectuality ,
knowledge , learnedness , learning , letters , literacy ,
mastery of skills , mellow wisdom , memorization , mental cultivation ,
mental culture , pedantism , pedantry , profoundness , profundity ,
reading , ripe wisdom , sageness , sapience , scholarliness ,
scholarship , science , seasoned understanding , self-instruction ,
sound understanding , storing the mind , studiousness , wisdom ,
wiseness

ERUDITION, n. Dust shaken out of a book into an empty skull. So wide his erudition's mighty span, He knew Creation's origin and plan And only came by accident to grief -- He thought, poor man, 'twas right to be a thief. Romach Pute