scholar
Americannoun
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a learned or erudite person, especially one who has profound knowledge of a particular subject.
- Synonyms:
- savant
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a student; pupil.
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a student who has been awarded a scholarship.
noun
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a learned person, esp in the humanities
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a person, esp a child, who studies; pupil
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a student of merit at an educational establishment who receives financial aid, esp from an endowment given for such a purpose
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a school pupil
Related Words
See pupil 1.
Other Word Forms
- nonscholar noun
- nonscholarly adjective
- scholarless adjective
- scholarliness noun
- scholarly adjective
Etymology
Origin of scholar
First recorded before 1000; from Late Latin scholāris, equivalent to Latin schol(a) school 1 + -āris -ar 1; replacing Middle English scoler(e), Old English scolere, from Late Latin, as above
Example Sentences
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Back in New Jersey, Venkatesh Chinni, a postdoctoral scholar and lead author of the study, measured iron concentrations in the samples, analyzing both dissolved iron and iron attached to suspended particles.
From Science Daily
Sam Sacks reviews the Nobel laureate’s “wily and endearing” final novel, in which a scholar investigating the life of a little-known guitarist suddenly becomes famous.
Ms. DuBois, a feminist scholar and professor of history at University of California, Los Angeles, pulls Stanton’s reputation out of the mud by putting her words and actions into historical context.
“Oh,” said Miss Allen, “that is just the way Katy Fox spelled ‘scissors’ when she was a scholar at my school!”
From Literature
But before that she was a cultural anthropology major and Fulbright scholar who studied cultural identity among second-generation North African women in France.
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