Definition: pundit

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Source: WordNet (r) 1.7 

pundit
     n : someone who has been admitted to membership in a scholarly
         field [syn: initiate, learned person, savant]

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) 

Pundit \Pun"dit\, n. [Hind. pandit, Skr. pandita a learned man.]
   A learned man; a teacher; esp., a Brahman versed in the
   Sanskrit language, and in the science, laws, and religion of
   the Hindoos; in Cashmere, any clerk or native official.
   [Written also pandit.] [India]