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Meanings of savants in English

Person with some exceptional cognitive abilities.

Usage of savants in English
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We met savants and learned men and satisfied them with our explanations.
The Promulgation of Universal Peace
2
Our beloved savants have their labs down there, their computers, their projects.
Prince Lestat
3
The eyes of the savants were turned now in my direction.
The Quest of the Sacred Slipper
4
But the savants of the sixteenth century generally wrote in Latin.
A Journey into the Interior of the Earth
5
Dolorous and exquisite epoch, say the artists and the religious savants.
Down There
6
The councils were no longer the orderly conferences of savants over cut-and-dried maps.
Vikings of the Pacific / The Adventures of the Explorers who Cam...
7
Even by the standards of savants, this had been a socially awkward morning.
The confusion
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I have been reading up the records of the savants of New York.
The Black Box
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He wrote frequently to the most distinguished savants of his time.
Celebrated Travels and Travellers, Part 1. / The Exploration of ...
10
Whether this land was America, Gamaland, or Asia, the savants could not know.
Vikings of the Pacific / The Adventures of the Explorers who Cam...
11
Society consists of three classes of workers-industrialworkers, savants, and artists.
The Idea of Progress: An Inquiry into Its Origin and Growth
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We savants may not be worldly, but we are not fools.
The Green Mummy
13
The anonymous reviews, planted, like sapper's mines, in the journals of the savants?
Quicksilver
14
Did you see the young savants who work under Gordon's orders?
Confidence
15
The French savants conveyed the electric current through a circuit of twelve thousand feet.
Beacon Lights of History, Volume 11: American Founders
16
The unusual and inexplicable performances of individuals called idiots savants belong to this category.
The Civilization of Illiteracy
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