SCHOLAR

learner, scholar, assimilator

(noun) someone (especially a child) who learns (as from a teacher) or takes up knowledge or beliefs

scholar, scholarly person, bookman, student

(noun) a learned person (especially in the humanities); someone who by long study has gained mastery in one or more disciplines

scholar

(noun) a student who holds a scholarship

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Etymology

Noun

scholar (plural scholars)

A student; one who studies at school or college, typically having a scholarship.

A specialist in a particular branch of knowledge.

A learned person; a bookman.

Synonyms

• (student): pupil, student

• (specialist): expert, specialist

• (learned person): academic, learned person, savant, scholarly person, erudite

Anagrams

• chorals, lorchas, orchals

Source: Wiktionary

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Schol"ar, n. Etym: [OE. scoler, AS. scolere, fr. L. scholaris belonging to a school, fr. schola a school. See School.]

1. 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. I am no breeching scholar in the schools. Shak.

2. One engaged in the pursuits of learning; a learned person; one versed in many branches, of knowledge; a person of high literary or scientific attainments; a savant. Shak. Locke.

3. A man of books. Bacon.

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

Syn.

– Pupil; learner; disciple.

– Scholar, Pupil. Scholar refers to the instruction, and pupil to the care and government, of a teacher. A scholar is one who is under instruction; a pupil is one who is under the immediate and personal care of an instructor; hence we speak of a bright scholar, and an obedient pupil.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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