Today’s “Word of the Day” is “polymath“ and it is a noun meaning “a person who has a lot of knowledge about various things/subjects/fields”.
Example Sentence: In 1751, the great American polymath Benjamin Franklin worried about the small number of “purely white People in the World”. “All Africa,” he wrote, “is black or tawny (relating to a mix of yellow, orange, and brown). Asia chiefly tawny… And in Europe, the Spaniards, Italians, French, Russians and Swedes, are generally of what we call a swarthy (dark-coloured/skinned) Complexion; as are the Germans also.” Only “the Saxons… [and] the English make the principal Body of White People on the Face of the Earth.”
This word is present in When Cleopatra was alive, she wasn’t categorised by the colour of her skin and click here to read it.
Courtesy: The Guardian
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