ollamh means in Irish history, a man of science or learning, equivalent to a university professor. Lexicurio rates it Distinctive — a strength score of 57 out of 100.
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OLLAMH — [Noun] In early Irish society, the highest rank of master scholar or learned professional in a field such as poetry, law, history, or medicine. Borrowed from Irish ollamh, from Old Irish ollam ("doctor, master, highest rank of poet or scholar"). Unlike a fili (a professional poet or seer) or a professor (a modern, institutional appointment), an ollamh was the supreme, recognized embodiment of knowledge within the intricate, aristocratic fabric of Gaelic culture. He was the intricate legal precedent recalled without a manuscript, the genealogical chain chanted back through seven generations of kings, and the perfectly metered satire that could raise blisters on a chieftain's face—a fusion of sage, artisan, and dignitary whose learning was the tangible mortar of a world since turned to myth.
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- In Irish history, a man of science or learning, equivalent to a university professor.