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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

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scholar Synonyms

scholar

n.

  1. A pupil

    student, schoolboy, schoolgirl, learner; see student.

  2. An expert in humanistic studies

    philosopher, savant, pundit, authority, sage, professor, academic, teacher, doctor, litterateur, learned person; see also critic 2, intellectual, scientist.

    Scholars include: editor, textual critic, lexicographer, historian, biographer, bibliographer, comparativist, linguist, philologist, semanticist, paleographer, historiographer, archaeologist, demographer, geographer, geopolitician, political scientist, sociologist, philosopher, folklorist, anthropologist, economist, ethnologist, cartographer, classicist, humanist, behaviorist, dialectologist, rhetorician, grammarian, etymologist, musicologist, literary historian, theologian, orientalist. See syn. study at student.student.


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scholar Usage Examples

Preposition: of

  • Buddhism: The Drepung Monastery used to nourish a lot of scholars of Buddhism in Tibet.

Converse of object

  • invite: And it has organized conferences, workshops and lectures involving Oxford historians and invited scholars from elsewhere in Britain and Europe.

Adjective modifier

  • biblical: Note the biblical scholar begging the question, yet again, in respect of the " period of the Judges.

Noun used with modifier

  • third-year: After the break, with third-year scholar Bob Thanda on for the unfortunate Sankofa, Charlton continued to look second best.
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scholar quotes

To spend too much time in studies is sloth; to use them too much for ornament is affectation; to make judgment wholly by their rules is the humour of a scholar.

-Bacon, Francis,Viscount St Albans

His locke'  d, letter'd, braw brass-collar, Show'd him the gentleman an'scholar.

-Burns, Robert

Thisgreat College, of this ancient University, has seen some strange sights. It has seen Wordsworth drunk and Porson sober. And here am I, a better poet than Porson, and a better scholar than Wordsworth, betwixt and between.

-Housman, A(lfred) E(dward)

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