| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| SYLLABICATION: | pun·dit |
| PRONUNCIATION: |  p n d t |
| NOUN: | 1. A source of opinion; a critic: a political pundit. 2. A learned person. 3. Hinduism Variant of pandit. | | ETYMOLOGY: | Hindi pa  it, learned man, from Sanskrit paita , learned, scholar, perhaps of Dravidian origin. | | OTHER FORMS: | pundit·ry —NOUN
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