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My dictionary says

polymath: a person of wide-ranging knowledge or learning.

Wikipedia says

In less formal terms, a polymath (or polymathic person) may simply refer to someone who is very knowledgeable.

This is true; one of the points the article was making is that the current definition of polymath is much weaker than the one we had even a hundred years ago. The GP is probably referring to that one.

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