scholar

Noun

Meaning

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.

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.

A man of books.

In English universities, an undergraduate who belongs to the foundation of a college, and receives support in part from its revenues.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

learner bookman student scholarly person professor scientist researcher sage authority academic intellectual expert philosopher specialist pupil
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Antonyms

pro prat bayard jackass twit berk
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Hypernyms

individual person soul intellectual pupil mortal

Hyponyms

shakespearean Islamist dr. professor doctor scholastic

Related terms

scholiast

Phrases with the word

Scholar's mate scholar's gown underestimated scholar the book of sirach the scholar religious scholar language scholar

Examples

The very concept of history implies the scholar and the reader. Without a generation of civilized people to study history, to preserve its records, to absorb its lessons and relate them to its own problems, history, too, would lose its meaning. George F. Kennan

Originality is the essence of true scholarship. Creativity is the soul of the true scholar. Nnamdi Azikiwe

He was a rake among scholars, and a scholar among rakes. Thomas Babington Macaulay

Today is the scholar of yesterday. English Proverb

The scholar knows what she lacks knowledge of. Yiddish Proverb

The great scholar forgets about fame, the average scholar works for it, and the unworthy scholar steals it. Chinese Proverb

Close letter words and terms

schola schola cantorum scholaptitude scholar and gentleman Scholar Green scholar tree