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/ˈskɒlə/ · noun
A student; one who studies at school or college, typically having a scholarship..
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.
Use scholar when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Scholar means A student; one who studies at school or college, typically having a scholarship..
Common synonyms include student, pupil, expert, specialist.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
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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