0 a person with a high level of knowledge or skill, especially someone who is less able in other ways:
There are musical savants who are very awkward physically - until they sit at the piano.
The distinction between the ingenieur savant and his more theoretically oriented mathematical colleagues is the subject of the next section.
Others worked as court savants, sometimes without having a position in the civil service.
Religious and national tolerance among savants was not unrestricted.
The ingenieur savant was both motivated to his research by the concerns of engineering and technology, and also often tailored it to suit such needs.
The four were indeed grands savants, comparing favorably with any four from any other country in 1900.
He, like his contemporaries, expected far more from the savant.
The eighteenth century category of savant differed from the twentieth century category of "scientist" in being broader, more fluid, and not professional.
Learning the impossible : the acquisition of possible and impossible languages by a polyglot savant.
