erudition

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Profound knowledge acquired from learning and scholarship. countable,uncountable
    — Professor Archimedes Q. Porter was their only immediate anxiety. Fully assured in his own mind that his daughter had been picked up by a passing steamer, he gave over the last vestige of apprehension concerning her welfare, and devoted his giant intellect solely to the consideration of those momentous and abstruse scientific problems which he considered the only proper food for thought in one of his erudition.
  2. The refinement, polish and knowledge that education confers. countable,uncountable

词形变化

eruditions plural

词汇关系

相关词
erudite rude

词源

First attested in the 15th Century. From Middle French érudition, from Latin eruditio (“an instructing, learning, erudition”), from erudire (“to instruct, educate, cultivate”, literally “free from rudeness”), from e (“out”) + rudis (“rude”). By surface analysis, erudite + -ion.
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