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Definition of Scholarly person
1. Noun. A learned person (especially in the humanities); someone who by long study has gained mastery in one or more disciplines.
Generic synonyms: Intellect, Intellectual
Specialized synonyms: Academician, Schoolman, Alum, Alumna, Alumnus, Grad, Graduate, Arabist, Bibliographer, Bibliophile, Book Lover, Booklover, Cabalist, Kabbalist, Doctor, Dr., Goliard, Historian, Historiographer, Humanist, Initiate, Learned Person, Pundit, Savant, Islamist, Licentiate, Masorete, Masorite, Massorete, Master, Mujtihad, Musicologist, Bookworm, Pedant, Scholastic, Philomath, Philosopher, Post Doc, Postdoc, Reader, Renaissance Man, Generalist, Renaissance Man, Salutatorian, Salutatory Speaker, Scholiast, Medieval Schoolman, Schoolman, Shakespearean, Shakespearian, Sinologist, Theologian, Theologiser, Theologist, Theologizer, Valedictorian, Valedictory Speaker, Vedist
Specialized synonyms: Crichton, James Crichton, The Admirable Crichton, Lorenzo De'medici, Lorenzo The Magnificent, Edmond Malone, Edmund Malone, Malone, Marcus Terentius Varro, Varro
Derivative terms: Scholarly, Scholarship, Studentship
Lexicographical Neighbors of Scholarly Person
Literary usage of Scholarly person
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Macmillan's Magazine by David Masson, George Grove, John Morley, Mowbray Morris (1868)
"It is in the bye- paths, which only the student and the scholarly person traverses,
unaccompanied by the general reader, that we are left too much without ..."
2. The New England Historical and Genealogical Register (1881)
"Winthrop 's letters, papers and diaries, for any mention of either name.
The writing, the style and the rail, seem to betoken a scholarly person. ..."
3. The Inland Educator by Francis M. Stalker, Charles Madison Curry, Walter W. Storms (1896)
"The teacher should not only be a scholarly person, but he should bean "up-to-date"
person. He should be in touch with the times, should be a student of ..."
4. Macmillan's Magazine by David Masson, George Grove, John Morley, Mowbray Morris (1869)
"He was now no boy who could be coerced, but a staid, self-reliant, scholarly
person, with a sword by his side and an English passport to secure him, ..."
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