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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

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.

scholar Usage Examples

Preposition: of

  • Buddhism: The Drepung Monastery used to nourish a lot of scholars of Buddhism in Tibet.
  • caliber: For the permanent position you should be a scholar of the highest caliber able to enhance the research strength in American History.

Converse of object

  • invite: And it has organized conferences, workshops and lectures involving Oxford historians and invited scholars from elsewhere in Britain and Europe.
  • visit: Time was spent with many visiting scholars in helping with their research.
  • engage: Currently, there is increasing international and interdisciplinary contact between scholars engaged in identity research.
  • baffle: Yet their veiled references and cryptic symbols have baffled the scholars and encouraged cheap, sensationalist versions.
  • attract: A common focus to the work of the Center is provided by a fortnightly General Seminar, which attracts leading international scholars.
  • lead: This has led biblical scholars to turn to other methods for addressing the apparent historical discrepancies in the books.

Adjective modifier

  • biblical: Note the biblical scholar begging the question, yet again, in respect of the " period of the Judges.
  • distinguished: Visits by distinguished Scholars are also supported by these funds.
  • eminent: As Geoffrey was a key figure in the myth making process his text has been studied by many eminent scholars.
  • Islamic: To their credit, the movement we are speaking of has revived interest in hadith among Islamic scholars across the board.
  • choral: There are also four choral scholars -- one per part -- who are studying music to a professional standard.

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.
  • Sanskrit: It was developed from the 1930s onward by yoga guru and Sanskrit scholar, Sri T. Krishnamacharya.
  • Buddhist: Buddhist scholar Joanna Macy writes of visiting a group of monks in Tibet.
  • organ: He began his time at York as an organ scholar and has made his way up to the position he held until July.
  • testament: What they really need is a good Old Testament scholar.
  • fide: Manuscript collections Bona fide scholars who wish to consult manuscripts should contact in the first instance the Archivist to make an appointment.
scholar Quotes

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)

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

—Burns, Robert

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

Like a dull scholar, I behold, in love, An ancient aspect touching a new mind. It comes, it blooms, it bears its fruit and dies. This trivial trope reveals a way of truth. Our bloom isgone.We are the fruit thereof.

—Stevens,Wallace

No life, my honest scholar, no life so happyand so pleasant as the life of a well-governed angler; for when the lawyer is swallowed up with business, and the statesman is preventing or contriving plots, then we sit on cowslip-banks, hear the birds sing, and possess ourselves in as much quietness as these silver streams, which we now see glide so quietly by us.

—Walton, Izaak

I could never be a complete scholar or a complete housewife ora completewriter: Imustcombinea little of all, and thereby be imperfect in all.

—Plath, Sylvia

Yet hope not life from grief or danger free, Nor think the doom of man reversed for thee: Deign on the passing world to turn thine eyes, And pause awhile from letters, to be wise; There mark what ills the scholar's life assail, Toil, envy, want, the patron and the jail.

—Johnson, Samuel known as Dr Johnson

And to this day is every scholar poor; Gross gold from them runs headlong to the boor.

—Marlowe, Christopher

Sigmund Freud has often stated Dreams and drives are all related. Zip, I am such a scholar!

—Rodgers, Richard and Hart, Lorenz