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Definition of Scholar
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
2. Noun. Someone (especially a child) who learns (as from a teacher) or takes up knowledge or beliefs.
Generic synonyms: Individual, Mortal, Person, Somebody, Someone, Soul
Specialized synonyms: Memoriser, Memorizer, Quick Study, Sponge, Dweeb, Grind, Nerd, Swot, Wonk, Tutee
Derivative terms: Assimilate, Learn, Scholarship
3. Noun. A student who holds a scholarship.
Generic synonyms: Educatee, Pupil, Student
Derivative terms: Scholarship
Definition of Scholar
1. n. One who attends a school; one who learns of a teacher; one under the tuition of a preceptor; a pupil; a disciple; a learner; a student.
Definition of Scholar
1. Noun. A student; one who studies at school or college. ¹
2. Noun. A specialist in a particular branch of knowledge. ¹
3. Noun. A learned person; a bookman. ¹
4. Noun. One who educates themself for their whole life. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Scholar
1. a learned person [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Scholar
Literary usage of Scholar
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Catalogue by Yale University, Columbia university, Hokkaido University (1907)
"B., Sheffield Graduate scholar A. GEORGE E. BKCK, BA, Foote Fellow in Yale
College .7 Library st. THEODORE H. BOGGS, MA, Eldridge Fellow in Yale College 115 ..."
2. The Sacred Books of China: The Texts of Confucianism by Confucius, James Legge (1885)
"I have heard that the studies of the scholar are extensive, ... I do not know
any dress of the scholar.' 2. The duke said, 'Allow me to ask what is the ..."
3. The Universal Songster: Or, Museum of Mirth: Forming the Most Complete (1834)
"Л scholar one time, though I can't tell you when, Nor can I tell where too, ...
Says the scholar, " I can, for at magic I dash, Nor e'en for Old Nick care ..."
4. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London by Royal Society (Great Britain) (1894)
"... Deas-Thomson scholar in the University of Sydney, and JB ALLEN, Exhibition
Commissioners' scholar of the University of Adelaide, South Australia. ..."
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