VEDIST

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• VEDIST (noun)
  The noun VEDIST has 1 sense:

1. a scholar of or an authority on the Vedas

  Familiarity information: VEDIST used as a noun is very rare.

• VEDIST (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A scholar of or an authority on the Vedas

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("Vedist" is a kind of...):

bookman; scholar; scholarly person; student (a learned person (especially in the humanities); someone who by long study has gained mastery in one or more disciplines)

Derivation:

Veda ((from the Sanskrit word for 'knowledge') any of the most ancient sacred writings of Hinduism written in early Sanskrit; traditionally believed to comprise the Samhitas, the Brahmanas, the Aranyakas, and the Upanishads)

Vedism (the form of Hinduism that revolves primarily around the mythic version and ritual ideologies in the Vedas)