polymath
noun/ˈpɒlimæθ/
/ˈpɑːlimæθ/
(formal, approving)- a person who knows a lot about many different subjectsWord Originearly 17th cent.: from Greek polumathēs ‘having learned much’, from polu- ‘much’ + the stem of manthanein ‘learn’.
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