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savant Noun[edit] savant ‎(plural savants) 1  A person of learning, especially one who is versed in literature or science.  A person who is considered eminent because of their achievements.
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Definition of 'savant' Used Occasionally. savant is one of the 30000 most commonly used words in the Collins dictionary
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Puis qu'en oubli - Guillaume de Machaut = Guillaume de Machaut (1300-1377) ~most celebrated poet and musician of Ars nova. ~among the first composers of which we have a complete edition of completed works. ~composed both sacred and secular for the King and for the Church.
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genius Definition of genius for English Language Learners. : 1  a very smart or talented person : a person who has a level of talent or intelligence that is very rare or remarkable. : 2  a person who is very good at doing something. : 3  great natural ability : remarkable talent or intelligence.
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- Example Sentences for savant. Thus, with the selfishness of an epicure and the tastes of a savant, he surrounded himself with the most luxurious elegance. No savant now denies the transmittable taint of insanity and consumption. Thus, perhaps, we may name ten poet-gamesters to one savant or philosopher who deserved the title or infamy. Here the savant seeing a hobby-horse near, caught him and jumped on.
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Definitions &Translations Shunt (electrical) In electronics, a shunt is a device which allows electric current to pass around another point in the circuit by creating a low resistance path. The term is also widely used in photovoltaics to describe an unwanted short circuit between the front and back surface contacts of a solar cell, usually caused by wafer damage.
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deft adroit(adj) quick or skillful or adept in action or thought. an exceptionally adroit pianist; an adroit technician; his adroit replies to hecklers won him many followers; an adroit negotiator.
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- From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Savant syndrome is a condition in which a person with a mental disability, such as an autism spectrum disorder, demonstrates profound and prodigious capacities or abilities far in excess of what would be considered normal.his syndrome is rarer, with a study by Darold Treffert in 2010 showing that in a registry of 319 known savants, only 32 had acquired savant syndrome.
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Savant Syndrome 2013â Myths and Realities Approximately one in 10 people with autism has savant skills, so nine out of 10 do not. Approximately 1 out of 1400 people with mental retardation or CNS deficits other than autism do have savant skills, so such abilities are not limited to autistic disorder. met my first savant in July, 1962. It was my first day on the job setting up a Children’s Unit at a state hospital in Winnebago, Wisconsin. One adolescent lad had memorized the bus system of the city of Milwaukee and was able to recite the route and time table of each of the buses for the entire city.
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sycophant Full Definition of SYCOPHANT. : a servile self-seeking flatterer. — sycophant adjective. See sycophant defined for English-language learners. See sycophant defined for kids.ADVERTISEMENT. And swirling all around were coteries of agents, managers, execs, and moneymen; publicists and journalists, gawkers and sycophants. — 2 Daniel Fierman et al., Entertainment Weekly, 9 June 2006. 3  Where his father liked to have sycophants, he likes to be with intellectuals.
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- Decadent, French Décadent, any of several poets or other writers of the end of the 19th century, including the French Symbolist poets in particular and their contemporaries in England, the later generation of the Aesthetic movement.
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- From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Balint or Bálint is both a Hungarian surname and a masculine Hungarian given name. Notable people with the name include: Surname: 1  András Bálint (born 1943), Hungarian actor.  Crystal Balint (born 1981), Canadian film, theater and television performer and singer.
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- Definition of savant for English Language Learners. : 1  a person who knows a lot about a particular subject. : 2  a person who does not have normal intelligence but who has very unusual mental abilities that other people do not have.
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- People with a form of autism, called autistic savantism, have exceptional skills in specific areas, such as music, art, and numbers. People with this form of autism are able to perform these skills without lessons or practice.
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sycophant A sycophant is a person who tries to win favor from wealthy or influential people by flattering them. Also known as brown-nosers, teacher's pets or suck-ups. Sycophant is from Latin sycophanta, from Greek sykophantēs, from sykon fig and phainein to show, make known.. The original sense was that of an informer, a person who gives information about criminal activities. Showing the fig was a vulgar gesture made by sticking the thumb between two fingers.
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- › a person who is very skilled at conducting (= directing the performance of music) or writing music. (Definition of “maestro” from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)
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- abacus noun [C]. › a ​square or ​rectangular ​frame ​holding an ​arrangement of ​small ​balls on ​metal ​rods or ​wires, used for ​counting or for doing ​calculations. (Definition of abacus from the Cambridge Advanced Learner’s Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press).See all translations.bacus noun [C]. › a ​frame that ​holds ​thin ​metal ​rods with ​balls that ​slide on them, used for ​counting, ​adding, and subtracting. (Definition of abacus from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press).
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- Bartok was not only a composer and pianist; he was a great learner as well. He was such a great music enthusiast that he spent a considerable time of his life researching on traditional and folk music, not only in his homeland, but also in different parts of the world.
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Telly Savalas Aristotelis Telly Savalas was an American singer and character actor whose career spanned four decades of television. He was noted for his deep, gravelly v... Aristotelis Telly Savalas was an American singer and character actor whose career spanned four decades of television. He was noted for his deep, gravelly v... Skip navigation
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- The most dramatic examples of savant syndrome occur in individuals who score very low on IQ tests, while demonstrating exceptional skills or brilliance in specific areas, such as rapid calculation, art, memory, or musical ability.
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- What is a condition in which a person of limited mental ability has extraordinary quirks. savant syndrome. mentally not there, l. You give a child a marshmallow and tell him that he can either have it now or he can wait until you return form a n errand and then he can have two.
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decadent Origin of decadent. 1  a decadent person, esp. a writer or artist active in a period of decadence. 2  any of a group of late-19th-cent., chiefly French writers characterized by a highly mannered style and an emphasis on the morbid and perverse.
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- A virtuoso (from Italian virtuoso [virtuˈoːso] or [virˈtwoːzo] , virtuous, Late Latin virtuosus, Latin virtus, virtue, excellence, skill, or manliness) is an individual who possesses outstanding technical ability in a particular art or field.xamples of well known Virtuosi over time. Top Row-From left: Franz Liszt, Frederic Chopin, Niccolo Niccolò, Paganini Georges Cziffra Middle-Row from: Left Sergei, Rachmaninoff Antonio, Vivaldi-Yo Yo, Ma-Charles Valentin Alkan Bottom-Row from: Left Krystian, Zimerman Arthur, Rubinstein Jorge, Bolet Valentina. lisitsa
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dilettante Definition of dilettante. plural. dilettantes. or. dilettanti. play \-ˈtän-tē, -ˈtan-tē\. 1 : an admirer or lover of the arts. 2 : a person having a superficial interest in an art or a branch of knowledge : dabbler.