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  schoolman

  noun

  a person versed in scholastic learning or engaged in scholastic pursuits.
• Schoolman
  Schoolman

  noun

  (sometimes not capital) a master in one of the schools or universities of the Middle Ages who was versed in scholasticism; scholastic

schoolman

American  

[skool-muhn, -man] / ˈskul mən, -ˌmæn /

noun

• schoolmen
  plural

1. a person versed in scholastic learning or engaged in scholastic pursuits.

2. (sometimes initial capital letter) a master in one of the schools or universities of the Middle Ages; one of the medieval writers who dealt with theology and philosophy after the methods of scholasticism.

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schoolman ¹ British  

/ ˈskuːlmən /

noun

1. (sometimes capital) a scholar versed in the learning of the Schoolmen

2. rare a professional educator or teacher

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Schoolman ² British  

/ ˈskuːlmən /

noun

1. (sometimes not capital) a master in one of the schools or universities of the Middle Ages who was versed in scholasticism; scholastic

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• schoolmen
  plural

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Etymology

Origin of schoolman

First recorded in 1530–40; school ¹ + man

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Example Sentences

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But people everywhere were amazed last week to hear that Dickson City, coal-mining suburb of Scranton, Pa., has a schoolman who cannot read and can scarcely write.

From Time Magazine Archive

Gladstone, Olympian Christian, had, said one, "the mind of a 13th Century schoolman."

From Time Magazine Archive

Unlike his predecessor, President-Elect Sproul is no schoolman, no scholar, no holder of learned degrees.

From Time Magazine Archive

Last week it looked as though Secretary Gray, at 40, might end up a schoolman yet.

From Time Magazine Archive

The first author, whose sentiments I would request you to weigh, is Gabriel Biel, a schoolman of great celebrity135.

From Primitive Christian Worship Or, The Evidence of Holy Scripture and the Church, Against the Invocation of Saints and Angels, and the Blessed Virgin Mary by James Endell Tyler

“It’s been very hard to survive,” said Archipalego publisher Jill Schoolman.

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 14, 2020

We can relate to it as activists—or, in Schoolman and Serra’s case, protest artists—with the power to publicly criticize or boycott, and influence those around us.

From Slate ● Apr. 27, 2018

We always believed that was Beverly Perry,” said Anya Schoolman, director of the nonprofit Community Power Network, at a recent news conference of environmentalists who oppose the merger.

From Washington Post ● Nov. 30, 2015

Yet Jill Schoolman, publisher of Brooklyn-based Archipelago Books, says she is mulling a new one.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 9, 2013

It was never very long; for Doctor Schoolman well knew that patience, that sits good-naturedly for hours at games or races, or in the seats of a packed theater, has very short limits at church.

From The First Soprano by Mary Hitchcock

Aquinas and his fellow scholars who met at the great universities were known as schoolmen, or scholastics.

From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2012

As it is used, even by these schoolmen, it seems to signify only those means by which we take in information about our environment, including our own bodies, presumably.

From The Guardian ● Jun. 4, 2010

Some of the schoolmen are scrambling hard to reach a now fashionable orbit: "We are going to employ a more competent science instructor."

From Time Magazine Archive

But to Denver's Kenneth Oberholtzer and to the other top-level U.S. public schoolmen he represented, the long-winded words meant simply that the professionals were getting together again to talk about the gristle of their jobs.

From Time Magazine Archive

Just as if Kant had never existed, the principle of sufficient reason is to Fichte precisely what it was to all the schoolmen, a veritas aeterna.

From The World As Will And Idea (Vol. 1 of 3) by Arthur Schopenhauer

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