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[sa-VAWNT] 
1. a person of extensive learning; a scholar: "Known to his co-workers as an 80s rock savant, Kyle possessed an encyclopedic knowledge of musicians, songs, lyrics, and hair sprays."
Known to his online friends as a rock music savant, Kyle possessed encyclopedic knowledge of musicians, songs, and lyrics. 2. an idiot savant (a mentally retarded person who exhibits extraordinary ability in a highly specialized area, such as music or mathematics)
Origin:
Approximately 1719; borrowed from French, 'savant': a learned man, from 'savant': learned; from Old French present participle of 'savoir': to know; from Vulgar Latin, 'sapere'; from Latin, 'sapere': to be wise. In action:
"Sure, Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos was Time magazine's man of the year, and Tim Koogle was the new-media savant who made Yahoo the top Web portal, but Whitman was the old-fashioned, low-key manager. And the tortoise has beaten the hares. Yahoo has slipped from profitable to unprofitable, and Wall Street wonders if the never-profitable Amazon.com will survive. But eBay is doing fine; Wall Street complains that its stock is too expensive, but the company is worth more than four times as much as Kmart, and Whitman is leading it into its sixth very profitable year in a row."
Loren Fox. "Meg Whitman: The CEO of eBay presides over a company worth more than four times as much as Kmart." Salon.com (Nov. 27, 2001).
"Despite a heady dose of mainstream Marxiana a few years back�-when Verso reissued The Communist Manifesto as a historical-materialist collectible, and The New Yorker pronounced Marx a sort of capitalist savant, whose books make swell reading for market mavens�-Marx's legacy at most American schools seems to have been swept away with those souvenir shards of the Berlin Wall. 'Nobody's frothing at the mouth anymore about the Marxists on campus,' says Diana Gordon, a professor of politics at City College. 'That's an indication not that they've been accepted, but that they've faded into the woodwork.'"
Jeff Byles. "Dialectical U: The Post-Seattle Generation Gets Its Marx Druthers," The Village Voice (January 17 - 23, 2001).
"And so, simply and easily, thanks to the facilities of town life, Levin settled a question which, in the country, would have called for so much personal trouble and exertion, and going out on to the steps, he called a sledge, sat down, and drove to Nikitsky. On the way he thought no more of money, but mused on the introduction that awaited him to the Petersburg savant, a writer on sociology, and what he would say to him about his book."
Leo Tolstoy�(1828�1910).�Russian novelist and philosopher.�Anna Karenina (1876).
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