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chrestomaths

chrestomaths is the plural of chrestomath.

Meaning of chrestomath

Noun

chrestomath (plural chrestomaths)

  1. (rare) A person devoted to useful learning; especially a language learner.
    • The study of the ancient languages, as now conducted in all good schools, seems to us quite as fit to exercise the attention, the memory, and the powers of analysis, combination, and taste, as any other study that can be suggested. [...] But so long as a certain knowledge of these tongues is...1825, Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, pages 463–464

Questions about chrestomaths

What is chrestomaths the plural of?
Chrestomaths is the plural of chrestomath.

Words near chrestomaths in the dictionary

  1. chrestomath
  2. chrestomathic
  3. chrestomathical
  4. chrestomathics
  5. chrestomathies
  6. chrestomaths
  7. chrestomathy
  8. Chretien
  9. Chretiens
  10. Chrimble
  11. Chrimbles

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