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scholar definition

scholar (skäl′ər)

noun

    1. a learned person
    2. a specialist in a particular branch of learning, esp. in the humanities a Mark Twain scholar
  2. a student given scholarship aid
  3. any student or pupil

Etymology: ME scoler < OE scolere or OFr escoler, both < ML < LL scholaris, relating to a school < L schola, school

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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