scholar
NounOpen English WordNet
Noun (3)scholars
- a learned person; someone who by long study has gained mastery in one or more disciplinesSynonyms: scholarly personType of intellectual, intellectKinds historian, reader, philosopher, theologian, alum, Renaissance man, humanist, initiate, pedant, Arabist +23 moreExamples Varro, Lorenzo de' Medici, Crichton, Malone
- someone (especially a child) who learns (as from a teacher) or takes up knowledge or beliefsSynonyms: learnerassimilatorstudentType of actor, doerKinds memorizer, swot, tutee, quick study
- a student who holds a scholarshipType of student, pupilKinds Rhodes scholar
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Translations
Noun specialist in a particular branch of knowledge
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Webster's Dictionary (1913)
Origin: OE. scoler, AS. scōlere, fr. L. scholaris belonging to a school, fr. schola a school. See School.
1. 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.
I am no breeching scholar in the schools.— William Shakespeare
2. One engaged in the pursuits of learning; a learned person; one versed in any branch, or in many branches, of knowledge; a person of high literary or scientific attainments; a savant. Shak. Locke.
3. A man of books. Francis, Baron Verulam Bacon
4. In English universities, an undergraduate who belongs to the foundation of a college, and receives support in part from its revenues.
Synonyms: Pupil; learner; disciple. — Scholar, Pupil. Scholar refers to the instruction, and pupil to the care and government, of a teacher. A scholar is one who is under instruction; a pupil is one who is under the immediate and personal care of an instructor; hence we speak of a bright scholar, and an obedient pupil.
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54