scholar

Definitions

noun

1

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

2

A specialist in a particular branch of knowledge.

3

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.

4

Someone who received a prestigious scholarship.

Collocations

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(noun.)

ADJ

brilliant, distinguished, eminent, famous, great, leading, outstanding

visiting

biblical, classical, French, history, literary, etc.

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Synonyms

noun — someone (especially a child) who learns (as from a teacher)

noun — a learned person (especially in the humanities)

Antonyms

Idioms & Phrases

scholar and gentleman

An admirable, intelligent person (usually a man).

Thank you so much for your help. You're a scholar and a gentleman.

Example Bank

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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

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Judging from what you say, he must be a great scholar.

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03

Everybody loved the simple scholar.

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04

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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Great scholar as he is, he is lacking in common sense.

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