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SCHOLAR

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Synonyms:

assimilator; learner; scholar

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("scholar" is a kind of...):

individual; mortal; person; somebody; someone; soul (a human being)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "scholar"):

memoriser; memorizer (a person who learns by rote)

quick study; sponge (someone able to acquire new knowledge and skills rapidly and easily)

dweeb; grind; nerd; swot; wonk (an insignificant student who is ridiculed as being affected or boringly studious)

tutee (learns from a tutor)

Derivation:

scholarship (financial aid provided to a student on the basis of academic merit)

Sense 2

Meaning:

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

Synonyms:

bookman; scholar; scholarly person; student

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("scholar" is a kind of...):

intellect; intellectual (a person who uses the mind creatively)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "scholar"):

musicologist (a student of musicology)

bookworm; pedant; scholastic (a person who pays more attention to formal rules and book learning than they merit)

philomath (a lover of learning)

philosopher (a specialist in philosophy)

post doc; postdoc (a scholar or researcher who is involved in academic study beyond the level of a doctoral degree)

reader (a person who enjoys reading)

Renaissance man (a scholar during the Renaissance who (because knowledge was limited) could know almost everything about many topics)

generalist; Renaissance man (a modern scholar who is in a position to acquire more than superficial knowledge about many different interests)

salutatorian; salutatory speaker (a graduating student with the second highest academic rank; may deliver the opening address at graduation exercises)

scholiast (a scholar who writes explanatory notes on an author (especially an ancient commentator on a classical author))

medieval Schoolman; Schoolman (a scholar in one of the universities of the Middle Ages; versed in scholasticism)

Shakespearean; Shakespearian (a Shakespearean scholar)

Sinologist (a student of Chinese history and language and culture)

theologian; theologiser; theologist; theologizer (someone who is learned in theology or who speculates about theology)

valedictorian; valedictory speaker (the student with the best grades who usually delivers the valedictory address at commencement)

Vedist (a scholar of or an authority on the Vedas)

academician; schoolman (a scholar who is skilled in academic disputation)

alum; alumna; alumnus; grad; graduate (a person who has received a degree from a school (high school or college or university))

Arabist (a scholar who specializes in Arab languages and culture)

bibliographer (someone trained in compiling bibliographies)

bibliophile; book lover; booklover (someone who loves (and usually collects) books)

Cabalist; Kabbalist (a student of the Jewish Kabbalah)

doctor; Dr. (a person who holds Ph.D. degree (or the equivalent) from an academic institution)

goliard (a wandering scholar in medieval Europe; famed for intemperance and riotous behavior and the composition of satirical and ribald Latin songs)

historian; historiographer (a person who is an authority on history and who studies it and writes about it)

humanist (a classical scholar or student of the liberal arts)

initiate; learned person; pundit; savant (someone who has been admitted to membership in a scholarly field)

Islamist (a scholar who knowledgeable in Islamic studies)

licentiate (holds a license (degree) from a (European) university)

Masorete; Masorite; Massorete (a scholar who is expert on the Masorah (especially one of the Jewish scribes who contributed to the Masorah))

master (someone who holds a master's degree from academic institution)

mujtihad (an Islamic scholar who engages in ijtihad, the effort to derive rules of divine law from Muslim sacred texts)

Instance hyponyms:

Crichton; James Crichton; The Admirable Crichton (Scottish man of letters and adventurer (1560-1582))

Lorenzo de'Medici; Lorenzo the Magnificent (Italian statesman and scholar who supported many artists and humanists including Michelangelo and Leonardo and Botticelli (1449-1492))

Edmond Malone; Edmund Malone; Malone (English scholar remembered for his chronology of Shakespeare's plays and his editions of Shakespeare and Dryden (1741-1812))

Marcus Terentius Varro; Varro (Roman scholar (116-27 BC))

Derivation:

scholarly (characteristic of scholars or scholarship)

scholarship (profound scholarly knowledge)

Sense 3

Meaning:

A student who holds a scholarship

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("scholar" is a kind of...):

educatee; pupil; student (a learner who is enrolled in an educational institution)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "scholar"):

Rhodes scholar (a student who holds one of the scholarships endowed by the will of Cecil J. Rhodes that enables the student to study at Oxford University)

Derivation:

scholarship (financial aid provided to a student on the basis of academic merit)

Credits

 Context examples: 

His majesty sent for three great scholars, who were then in their weekly waiting, according to the custom in that country.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

“I do not marvel at it,” cried the Cambrig scholar, speaking in the high drawling voice which was common among his class.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Some scholars have suggested Egyptians raised or farmed the birds to make them available in the necessary numbers.

(Ancient Egyptians collected wild ibis birds for sacrifice, says study, Wikinews)

Hu spearheaded the work with first author Dr. Mengqiu Wang, a postdoctoral scholar in his Optical Oceanography Lab at USF.

(Satellites Find Biggest Seaweed Bloom in the World, NASA)

Popp and Siegfried Eggl, a Caltech postdoctoral scholar at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California, created a model for a planet in the Kepler 35 system.

(Earth-Sized 'Tatooine' Planets Could Be Habitable, NASA)

I had lived a placid, uneventful, sedentary existence all my days—the life of a scholar and a recluse on an assured and comfortable income.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Chih-Hsiang "Jason" Yang, a postdoctoral scholar at the University of Southern California who led the study, said the results suggest a simple way for people to boost their wellbeing throughout the day.

(Mindful Movement May Help Lower Stress, Anxiety, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

He talked of foregrounds, distances, and second distances—side-screens and perspectives—lights and shades; and Catherine was so hopeful a scholar that when they gained the top of Beechen Cliff, she voluntarily rejected the whole city of Bath as unworthy to make part of a landscape.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

Keeping fossil fuels in the ground is the best way to limit further warming, said study lead author César Terrer, a postdoctoral scholar in Earth system science in Stanford's School of Earth, Energy & Environmental Sciences.

(Study Suggests Trees' Potential to Slow Global Warming in Next 100 Years, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Well now, I'm no scholar, and you're a lad as can read and figure, and to put it straight, do you take it as a dead man is dead for good, or do he come alive again?

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)