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
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
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