savant (n.)
- academician
- adept
- aficionado
- amateur
- artisan
- artist
- attache
- authority
- bookman
- buff
- classicist
- clerk
- connoisseur
- consultant
- craftsman
- critic
- dilettante
- diplomat
- diplomatist
- doctor
- elder
- expert
- fan
- freak
- genius
- graduate
- guru
- humanist
- intellect
- intellectual
- journeyman
- litterateur
- mahatma
- mandarin
- marksman
- master
- mastermind
- mentor
- nut
- oracle
- philologist
- philologue
- philomath
- philosopher
- politician
- polymath
- pro
- professional
- professor
- pundit
- rabbi
- sage
- scholar
- scholastic
- schoolman
- scientist
- seer
- shark
- sharp
- specialist
- starets
- statesman
- student
- technician
- technologist
- thinker
