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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

idiot-savant en · NOUN

Meanings

  1. (alt-of, alternative) Alternative form of idiot savant.
    • That slightly wide-eyed boyishness has given him a career playing ordinary people in extraordinary circumstances, whether that be everyone's favourite idiot-savant Forrest Gump (1994), a pilot who saves the day in Sully (2016), or the beleaguered Captain Miller of Saving Private Ryan (1998). 2021 February 9, Christina Newland, “Is Tom Hanks part of a dying breed of genuine movie stars?”, in BBC:

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