polyhistoric

adjective

Definition of polyhistoricnext
as in polymathic

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  1. scholarly
  2. erudite
  3. academic
  4. literate
  5. learned
  6. bookish
Adjective
  • The following reading list offers an initial primer on some of the major scholarly trends in the vibrant history of natural history.
    — The Editors, JSTOR Daily, 13 Mar. 2025
  • Until now, the consensus scholarly view has held that collards came to the Americas early in the 16th century with Spanish, Portuguese or English Europeans, who introduced collards as a garden plant that was then taken up by enslaved Africans.
    — Abderrahim Ouarghidi, The Conversation, 13 Mar. 2025
Definition of scholarly
Adjective
  • The Buenos Aires Reader, a comprehensive anthology enriched by its editors’ erudite commentaries, captures the Argentine capital’s evolution through contributions in art, food, music, soccer, and much else.
    — Foreign Affairs, Foreign Affairs, 25 Feb. 2025
  • Obsessed, Johanne puts her experiences down on paper and entrusts the results to her grandmother, Karin (Anne Marit Jacobsen), an erudite poet living among packed bookshelves.
    — Nicolas Rapold, Deadline, 22 Feb. 2025
Definition of erudite
Adjective
  • However, in most states, Medicaid plays a pivotal role in covering the costs of essential vaccinations, particularly for children who need or are potentially required to have these for enrollment in academic and professional institutions.
    — Raja Krishnamoorthi, Newsweek, 13 Mar. 2025
  • What will happen to cooperative agreements between IRS and academic researchers?
    — Howard Gleckman, Forbes, 13 Mar. 2025
Definition of academic
Adjective
  • Today, few Americans—even few historians—could describe the ins and outs of the case, but in the forties almost any literate American could have told the tale.
    — Beverly Gage, The New Yorker, 10 Mar. 2025
  • Reading isn’t hard-coded into our genome, like the capacity for speech is, and until recently, only a small minority of humans were literate.
    — Celia Ford, Vox, 10 Mar. 2025
Definition of literate
Adjective
  • Scientists have long theorized that dogs possess an innate connection to humans that they are born with and predates any training or learned behaviors.
    — Russel Honoré, Newsweek, 5 Mar. 2025
  • The scientists believe both these factors hint that this form of conflict resolution is a learned one, which is then adopted by younger apes.
    — New Atlas, New Atlas, 4 Mar. 2025
Definition of learned
Adjective
  • The story is about a bookish Black girl, in love with English literature (and the emotionally indecipherable white professor teaching it) at a predominantly white university in 1949, losing her childhood illusions — and then, in a gothic twist, losing much more.
    — Scott Brown, New York Times, 2 Dec. 2022
  • Bryce Young is bookish, too.
    — Joseph Goodman | jgoodman@al.com, al, 9 Dec. 2022
Definition of bookish
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“Polyhistoric.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/polyhistoric. Accessed 21 Mar. 2025.

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