polymaths

noun

plural of polymath
as in geniuses
formal someone who knows a lot about many different things She is rightly regarded as something of a polymath in her extensive knowledge of all the earth sciences.

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Recent Examples of polymaths Leonardo was one of history’s greatest polymaths, filling notebooks with designs across a range of disciplines, including flying machines that wouldn't be realized for centuries. — ABC News, 9 June 2026 Private Money, Public Breakthroughs To call Saad Bhamla and his seven co-recipients polymaths is more than flattery. — John Drake, Forbes.com, 16 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for polymaths
  1. geniuses
  2. virtuosos
  3. wizards
  4. thinkers
  5. intellects
  6. intellectuals
  7. sages
Noun
  • Broadly speaking, these kinds of stories — powered by a stop-them-before-they-kill-again clock, making their antagonists out to be finicky geniuses or horror movie monsters instead of opportunistic mediocrities — strike me as a low form of fiction.
    — Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times, 27 July 2026
  • To get around this, as Anne Hathaway so eloquently explains, the IMAX tech geniuses placed mirrors onto the sides of the cameras, so the actors could see each other and maintain a natural acting flow — ingenious stuff.
    — Benny Har-Even, Forbes.com, 17 July 2026
Definition of geniuses
Noun
  • The decade featured some of the most revered and celebrated virtuosos to ever walk the planet, both critically and commercially.
    — Matt Reigle OutKick, FOXNews.com, 8 Aug. 2026
  • Other guitar virtuosos might crave at least a little downtime between concluding a Las Vegas concert residency with one band and launching a national tour with another band, not but Joe Satriani.
    — George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Apr. 2026
Definition of virtuosos
Noun
  • Players can also customize a walking castle and investigate a mystery involving missing wizards.
    — Matt Gardner, Forbes.com, 12 Aug. 2026
  • Maybe the door to the wizards’ lair will open again someday, but a Camp Rock 4 seems more likely for now.
    — Allison McClain Merrill, Parents, 12 Aug. 2026
Definition of wizards
Noun
  • It’s been my privilege to learn, from scholars and thinkers and writers far more deeply rooted than myself in the American west, about its realities and relentless contradictions.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 11 Aug. 2026
  • Muslim thinkers debated how to revitalize their societies and overcome colonial domination.
    — Mimi Hanaoka, The Conversation, 11 Aug. 2026
Definition of thinkers
Noun
  • Women are compelled to suppress their desires, intellects, and emotions in Gilead.
    — Amanda Whiting, Vulture, 29 Apr. 2026
  • While the likes of Philo and Trotter have expanded upon the idea by prioritizing people whose intellects align with their brand values, Jacquemus takes it to another level.
    — Hannah Jackson, Vogue, 23 Jan. 2026
Definition of intellects
Noun
  • For some Muslim intellectuals and travelers, Japan’s modernization and its victory over Russia was proof that Asian nations need not be subservient to Europe or abandon their own cultural traditions.
    — Mimi Hanaoka, The Conversation, 11 Aug. 2026
  • Born in the Soviet Union in 1974, Beloozerov was raised by his mother Lena and stepfather Nikolai Beloozerov, a Soviet dissident and a mathematician, among a community of intellectuals in southwestern Moscow.
    — Isabelle Chapman, CNN Money, 10 Aug. 2026
Definition of intellectuals
Noun
  • Look to Rainbow Swiss chard, multicolor lettuces, purple-leaf basil, dusky blue kales or cabbages, and variegated perennial thymes and sages.
    — Erica Browne Grivas, Better Homes & Gardens, 3 Aug. 2026
  • Black sages have shown that Black rage will not be silenced; rather, it is directed toward creative expression.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 27 July 2026
Definition of sages

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