About The Word Scholar
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Scholar
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What's The Definition Of Scholar?
[n] someone (especially a child) who learns (as from a teacher) or takes up knowledge or beliefs
[n] a learned person (especially in the humanities); someone who by long study has gained mastery in one or more disciplines [n] a student who holds a scholarship Synonyms | Synonyms for Scholar: assimilator | learner | scholarly person | student Related Terms | Find terms related to Scholar: See Also | academician | alum | alumna | alumnus | Arabist | bibliographer | Crichton | Desiderius Erasmus | doctor | Dr. | Edmond Malone | Edmund Malone | educatee | Erasmus | Geert Geerts | generalist | Gerhard Gerhards | goliard | grad | graduate | grind | historian | historiographer | human | humanist | individual | initiate | intellect | intellectual | James Crichton | learned person | licentiate | Lorenzo de Medici | Lorenzo the Magnificent | Malone | Marcus Terentius Varro | master | medieval Schoolman | memoriser | memorizer | mortal | musicologist | nerd | person | pundit | pupil | quick study | reader | Renaissance man | Rhodes scholar | salutatorian | salutatory speaker | savant | scholiast | schoolman | Sinologist | somebody | someone | soul | swot | The Admirable Crichton | tutee | valedictorian | valedictory speaker | Varro | wonk Scholar In Webster's Dictionary \Schol"ar\, n. [OE. scoler, AS. sc[=o]lere, 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. --Shak.
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. --Bacon.
4. In English universities, an undergraduate who belongs to
the foundation of a college, and receives support in part
from its revenues.
Syn: Pupil; learner; disciple.
Usage: {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.
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