ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Scholar

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Pronunciation /ˈskɒlə/ · Part of speech noun

Quick meaning: Scholar is a noun meaning A student; one who studies at school or college, typically having a scholarship.

Meaning

A student; one who studies at school or college, typically having a scholarship.

More Meanings

  1. A specialist in a particular branch of knowledge.
  2. A learned person; a bookman.
  3. (Singapore) Someone who received a prestigious scholarship.

Example Sentences

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.

Word Forms

Synonyms for scholar

Depending on context, synonyms include student, pupil, expert, specialist, academic, savant.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include student, learner, schoolchild, university, academician, academia.

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