Usually means: Deep, extensive knowledge or learning.
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General (23 matching dictionaries)
  1. erudition: Merriam-Webster
  2. erudition: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. erudition: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. erudition: Collins English Dictionary
  5. erudition: Vocabulary.com
  6. Erudition, erudition: Wordnik
  7. erudition: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. erudition: Wiktionary
  9. erudition: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. erudition: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. erudition: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Erudition, erudition: Dictionary.com
  13. Erudition: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Erudition: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. erudition: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. erudition: Rhymezone
  17. Erudition: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. erudition: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. erudition: FreeDictionary.org
  20. erudition: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. erudition: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. erudition: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. erudition: Encyclopedia

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▸ noun:  Profound knowledge acquired from learning and scholarship.
▸ noun:  The refinement, polish and knowledge that education confers.

Similar:
scholarship, eruditeness, learning, learnedness, encyclopedism, bookmanship, polymathy, scholardom, bookhood, craft, more...

Opposite:
ignorance, illiteracy, uninformedness

Types:
book learning, street smarts, book smarts, more...

Adjectives:
great, vast, profound, much, classical, immense, extensive, historical, considerable, deep, mere

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Similar:
scholarship, eruditeness, learning, learnedness, encyclopedism, bookmanship, polymathy, scholardom, bookhood, craft, more...

Opposite:
ignorance, illiteracy, uninformedness

Types:
book learning, street smarts, book smarts, more...

Adjectives:
great, vast, profound, much, classical, immense, extensive, historical, considerable, deep, mere

Colors:
    oxford blue,     midnight blue,     royal blue,     indigo,     sapphire, more...



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