pundit

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  1. noun A source of opinion; a critic: a political pundit.
  2. noun A learned person.
  3. noun Hinduism Variant of pandit.

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  • But readers of this column have the right to expect a head's-up every so often from their net pundit, and I haven't been shy about pointing out trends and making educated guesses about what might be crossing your screens someday. —  Asimov'sSF,August2006
  • Then, bidding a ceremonious farewell, he would take his departure From the sound of certain oft-recurring expressions in his recitations we children called him "Con-stair Lo-vair"; perhaps some clever pundit will be able to tell me what these words mean — the only fragment saved of the hermit's mysterious language. —  Far Away And Long Ago
  • He's about our foremost pundit--professor at Yale--dug up cities in Asia Minor--edited Greek books. —  SICK HEART RIVER
  • For someone as educated as yourself to be characterized as some fluffy media pundit is emblematic of the FACT that we are in the "ridicule" stage of Gandhi's prophetic saying. —  Alex Jones' Prison Planet.com
  • When a pundit washes his hands of catastrophe by saying the world will be multipolar, it is time to change the channel on your crystal ball. —  Spero News
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  1. Hindi paṇḍit, learned man, from Sanskrit paṇḍitaḥ, learned, scholar, perhaps of Dravidian origin.

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  1. Also pandit (the Hindustani a being pronounced like English u); from Hindustani pandit, pandat, a learned man, master, teacher, an honorary title equivalent to doctor or professor; also a Hindu law-officer, jurist; from Sanskrit pandita, alearned man, scholar, as adjective learned.
 

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