Thesaurus: scholar

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1. n. 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.
2. n. 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.
3. n. A man of books.
4. n. In English universities, an undergraduate who belongs to the foundation of a college, and receives support in part from its revenues.
5. n. a learned person; someone who by long study has gained mastery in one or more disciplines
6. n. someone (especially a child) who learns (as from a teacher) or takes up knowledge or beliefs
7. n. a student who holds a scholarship
8. 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.
9. n:100 n. a learned person (especially in the humanities); someone who by long study has gained mastery in one or more disciplines n. a student who holds a scholarship