Gaon

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1)  A sage of the Talmudic academies of Babylonia.

Quotations

 * 1991, Joseph Telushkin, Jewish Literacy
 * The Gaon also was distressed by the veneration the Hasidim accorded their rabbinic leaders, men whom the Gaon generally regarded as ignoramuses.
 * 1996, Roger Friedland, Richard Hecht, To Rule Jerusalem
 * Like the hasidim, he too refused the title of rabbi, adopting the ancient title of Gaon.
 * 1997, Moshe Gil, A History of Palestine
 * The Gaon also mentions a letter he has received from Ḥasan as-ʻĀqūlī (al-ʻĀqūla, the ancient Aramaic name for Kūfa) undoubtedly one of the emigrants from Iraq to Egypt whom the Gaon knew.