philomath
[FIL-uh-math]
Definition: a lover of learning; a scholar.
-noun
1. A lover of learning; a scholar.
Examples:
1. It is precisely for the philomaths that universities ought to cater.
Aldous Huxley, Proper Studies
2. It's nothing to laugh about, he says. "Strange things happen in this country -- things that philosophers and other philomaths had never dreamed of."
Tomek Tryzna, Miss Nobody
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