Judging from what you say, he must be a great scholar.
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Scholar
//ˈskɒlə//
Synonyms for "scholar" (113 found)
Ranked by relevance and common usage.
Closest matches (23)
Strong matches (34)
Related words (56)
man of intellectman of learningman of lettersman of scienceman of wisdommandarinmastermastermindmentormine of informationmonitornutoraclepedagoguephilologistphilologuephilomathphilosophephilosopherpolyhistor
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polymathpractical scientistpraepostorprefectprofessorpunditpupilrabbirishisagesapientsavantscholasticschoolboyschoolgirlschoolmanscientistseerself-taught personspecialiststaretsstudentstudierteachertechnical experttechniciantechnologistthinkertraineeundergraduatewalking encyclopediawise manwise old man
Noun(3 words)
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More general
8 entriesSynonyms
2 entriesRelated terms
4 entriesat location
1 entriescapable of
5 entriesderived
20 entriesShowing 16 of 20 words.
derived from
1 entrieshas prerequisite
1 entriesis a
3 entriesrelated to
18 entriesShowing 16 of 18 words.
Translations
139 translations across 45 languages.
Albanian
2 entries- dijës noun (a student; one who studies at school or college, typically having a scholarship)
- dijës noun (specialist in a particular branch of knowledge)
Arabic
3 entries- عالم noun (specialist in a particular branch of knowledge)
- عَالِم noun (specialist in a particular branch of knowledge)
- عَالِم noun (learned person)
Armenian
1 entries- գիտնական noun (specialist in a particular branch of knowledge)
Bulgarian
3 entries- специалист noun (specialist in a particular branch of knowledge)
- стипендиа́нт noun (a student; one who studies at school or college, typically having a scholarship)
- у́чен noun (learned person)
Catalan
3 entries- erudit noun (learned person)
- estudiant noun (a student; one who studies at school or college, typically having a scholarship)
- estudiós noun (specialist in a particular branch of knowledge)
Chinese Cantonese
2 entries- 學生 /学生 noun (a student; one who studies at school or college, typically having a scholarship)
- 學者 /学者 noun (specialist in a particular branch of knowledge)
Chinese Mandarin
2 entries- 學生 /学生 noun (a student; one who studies at school or college, typically having a scholarship)
- 學者 /学者 noun (specialist in a particular branch of knowledge)
Czech
1 entries- učenec noun (specialist in a particular branch of knowledge)
Dutch
2 entries- geleerde noun (specialist in a particular branch of knowledge)
- geleerde noun (learned person)
Esperanto
2 entries- erudiciulino noun (specialist in a particular branch of knowledge)
- erudiciulo noun (specialist in a particular branch of knowledge)
Finnish
3 entries- opiskelija noun (a student; one who studies at school or college, typically having a scholarship)
- oppinut noun (learned person)
- tiedemies noun (specialist in a particular branch of knowledge)
French
4 entries- expert noun (specialist in a particular branch of knowledge)
- intellectuel noun (learned person)
- savant noun (learned person)
- spécialiste noun (specialist in a particular branch of knowledge)
Friulian
1 entries- scuelâr noun (specialist in a particular branch of knowledge)
German
4 entries- Gelehrter noun (specialist in a particular branch of knowledge)
- Gelehrter noun (learned person)
- Schüler noun (a student; one who studies at school or college, typically having a scholarship)
- Schülerin noun (a student; one who studies at school or college, typically having a scholarship)
Greek
1 entries- λόγιος noun (specialist in a particular branch of knowledge)
Hindi
4 entries- पंडित noun (learned person)
- विषेशज्ञ noun (specialist in a particular branch of knowledge)
- शोधकर्ता noun (a student; one who studies at school or college, typically having a scholarship)
- शोधार्थी noun (a student; one who studies at school or college, typically having a scholarship)
Hungarian
1 entries- tudós noun (specialist in a particular branch of knowledge)
Indonesian
2 entries- cendekiawan noun (learned person)
- sarjana noun (learned person)
Ingrian
2 entries- oppimees noun (specialist in a particular branch of knowledge)
- tiitomees noun (specialist in a particular branch of knowledge)
Iranian Persian
2 entries- خِرَدْمَنْد noun (specialist in a particular branch of knowledge)
- دانِش پِژوه noun (specialist in a particular branch of knowledge)
Italian
4 entries- accademico noun (specialist in a particular branch of knowledge)
- dotto noun (specialist in a particular branch of knowledge)
- dotto noun (learned person)
- erudito noun (specialist in a particular branch of knowledge)
Japanese
4 entries- 学生 noun (a student; one who studies at school or college, typically having a scholarship)
- 学者 noun (specialist in a particular branch of knowledge)
- 学識者 noun (learned person)
- 識者 noun (learned person)
Javanese
1 entries- pandhita noun (learned person)
Kituba
1 entries- kizabi noun (learned person)
Korean
2 entries- 학생 noun (a student; one who studies at school or college, typically having a scholarship)
- 학자 noun (specialist in a particular branch of knowledge)
Latvian
2 entries- zinātniece noun (specialist in a particular branch of knowledge)
- zinātnieks noun (specialist in a particular branch of knowledge)
Malayalam
4 entries- പണ്ഡിതൻ noun (specialist in a particular branch of knowledge)
- പണ്ഡിതൻ noun (learned person)
- വിദഗ്ദ്ധൻ noun (specialist in a particular branch of knowledge)
- വിദ്വാൻ noun (specialist in a particular branch of knowledge)
Pashto
1 entries- پوهاند noun (specialist in a particular branch of knowledge)
Polish
4 entries- stypendysta noun (a student; one who studies at school or college, typically having a scholarship)
- stypendystka noun (a student; one who studies at school or college, typically having a scholarship)
- uczona noun (specialist in a particular branch of knowledge)
- uczona noun (learned person)
Portuguese
4 entries- acadêmico noun (specialist in a particular branch of knowledge)
- bolseira noun (a student; one who studies at school or college, typically having a scholarship)
- bolseiro noun (a student; one who studies at school or college, typically having a scholarship)
- bolsista noun (a student; one who studies at school or college, typically having a scholarship)
Romanian
3 entries- erudit noun (specialist in a particular branch of knowledge)
- savant noun (specialist in a particular branch of knowledge)
- învățat noun (specialist in a particular branch of knowledge)
Russian
4 entries- знато́к noun (learned person)
- специали́ст noun (specialist in a particular branch of knowledge)
- студе́нт noun (a student; one who studies at school or college, typically having a scholarship)
- уча́щийся noun (a student; one who studies at school or college, typically having a scholarship)
Sanskrit
2 entries- पण्डित noun (specialist in a particular branch of knowledge)
- पण्डित noun (learned person)
Scottish Gaelic
2 entries- eòlaiche noun (specialist in a particular branch of knowledge)
- sgoilear noun (specialist in a particular branch of knowledge)
Spanish
4 entries- académico noun (specialist in a particular branch of knowledge)
- docto noun (specialist in a particular branch of knowledge)
- docto noun (learned person)
- erudito noun (specialist in a particular branch of knowledge)
Swahili
2 entries- mwanachuoni noun (specialist in a particular branch of knowledge)
- mwanachuoni noun (learned person)
Swedish
2 entries- forskare noun (specialist in a particular branch of knowledge)
- stipendiat noun (a student; one who studies at school or college, typically having a scholarship)
Tagalog
4 entries- paaralin noun (a student; one who studies at school or college, typically having a scholarship)
- paham noun (learned person)
- palaaral noun (specialist in a particular branch of knowledge)
- pantas noun (learned person)
Tamil
3 entries- அறிஞர் noun (specialist in a particular branch of knowledge)
- அறிஞர் noun (learned person)
- கற்றார் noun (learned person)
Turkish
3 entries- bilgin noun (specialist in a particular branch of knowledge)
- âlim noun (specialist in a particular branch of knowledge)
- âlim noun (learned person)
Urdu
2 entries- دانِشْوَر noun (specialist in a particular branch of knowledge)
- عالِم noun (specialist in a particular branch of knowledge)
Uzbek
1 entries- olim noun (learned person)
Vietnamese
1 entries- học sinh noun (a student; one who studies at school or college, typically having a scholarship)
Welsh
4 entries- academwraig noun (learned person)
- academydd noun (learned person)
- arbenigwr noun (specialist in a particular branch of knowledge)
- arbenigwraig noun (specialist in a particular branch of knowledge)
Yiddish
1 entries- חכם noun (specialist in a particular branch of knowledge)
Sample sentences
11 total sentences available.
Everybody loved the simple scholar.
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He is something of a scholar.
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Alfred, King of England, was a great scholar as well as a great ruler.
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