scholar
Americannoun
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a learned or erudite person, especially one who has profound knowledge of a particular subject.
- Synonyms:
- savant
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a student; pupil.
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a student who has been awarded a scholarship.
noun
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a learned person, esp in the humanities
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a person, esp a child, who studies; pupil
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a student of merit at an educational establishment who receives financial aid, esp from an endowment given for such a purpose
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a school pupil
Related Words
See pupil 1.
Other Word Forms
- nonscholar noun
- nonscholarly adjective
- scholarless adjective
- scholarliness noun
- scholarly adjective
Etymology
Origin of scholar
First recorded before 1000; from Late Latin scholāris, equivalent to Latin schol(a) school 1 + -āris -ar 1; replacing Middle English scoler(e), Old English scolere, from Late Latin, as above
Example Sentences
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Allen, a native of Graham and a playwright who wrote a drama based on Outlaw’s legacy, and Boggs, a scholar, connect the terrorism and hatred behind this man’s murder to the present day.
From Los Angeles Times
“Is it possible Russia would permit it to be re-registered in Russia without an inspection? It’s possible,” said Eugene Fidell, research scholar at Yale Law School and a former Coast Guard judge advocate general.
Some US lawmakers and legal scholars argued that because the centre was named in a 1964 law, Congress must vote to make the name change official.
From BBC
Legal scholars often have used the term “shadow docket,” because these cases don’t typically get oral arguments or other measures of transparency that distinguish the court’s regular docket.
Wu is a senior author of the study, publisded Dec. 10 in Science Translational Medicine, along with Masataka Nishiga, MD, PhD, a former Stanford postdoctoral scholar now at The Ohio State University.
From Science Daily
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