Scholar
noun ·Moderate ·High school level
Definitions
- 1 A student; one who studies at school or college, typically having a scholarship.
- 2 someone (especially a child) who learns (as from a teacher) or takes up knowledge or beliefs wordnet
- 3 A specialist in a particular branch of knowledge.
- 4 a learned person; someone who by long study has gained mastery in one or more disciplines wordnet
- 5 A learned person; a bookman.
"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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- 6 a student who holds a scholarship wordnet
- 7 Someone who received a prestigious scholarship. Singapore
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More examples"Judging from what you say, he must be a great scholar."
Etymology
From Middle English scolar, scolare, scoler, scolere (also scholer), from Old English scōlere (“scholar, learner”), from Late Latin scholāris, from schola (“school”), from Ancient Greek σχολή (skholḗ, “spare time, leisure", later, "conversations and the knowledge gained through them during free time; the places where these conversations took place”), equivalent to school + -ar. Compare Saterland Frisian Sköiler, Middle Low German schö̂lære, schö̂lere, schö̂ler (> modern German Low German Schöler), Dutch scholier, German Schüler. Doublet of escolar.
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