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Webster 1913 Edition
Scholar
Schol′ar
,Noun.
[OE.
scoler
, AS. scōlere
, 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. Shakespeare
2.
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.
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.
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Webster 1828 Edition
Scholar
SCHOL'AR
,Noun.
1.
One who learns of a teacher; one who is under the tuition of a preceptor; a pupil; a disciple; hence, any member of a college, academy or school; applicable to the learner of any art, science or branch of literature.2.
A man of letters.3.
Emphatically used, a man eminent for erudition; a person of high attainments in science or literature.4.
One that learns any thing; as an apt scholar in the school of vice.5.
A pedant; a man of books. [But the word scholar seldom conveys the idea of a pedant.]Definition 2024
scholar
scholar
English
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.
- 2013 September-October, Henry Petroski, “The Evolution of Eyeglasses”, in American Scientist:
- The ability of a segment of a glass sphere to magnify whatever is placed before it was known around the year 1000, when the spherical segment was called a reading stone, […] . Scribes, illuminators, and scholars held such stones directly over manuscript pages as an aid in seeing what was being written, drawn, or read.
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Derived terms
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Related terms
Translations
a student; one who studies at school or college, typically having a scholarship
specialist in a particular branch of knowledge
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learned person
See also
External links
- scholar in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
- scholar in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911