Definition for Scholar:

• skol'ar, n. a pupil: a disciple: a student: one who has received a learned education: a man of learning: a savant: in the English universities, an undergraduate partly supported from the revenues of a college.-- ns. SCHOL'ARCH, the head of a school of philosophy; SCHOL'ARISM, the affectation of scholarship.-- adjs. SCHOL'AR-LIKE, SCHOL'ARLY, like or becoming a scholar.-- n. SCHOL'ARSHIP, the character of a scholar: learning: maintenance for a scholar, a benefaction, the annual proceeds of a bequest permanently invested for this purpose.-- adj. SCHOLAS'TIC, pertaining to a scholar or to schools: scholar-like: pertaining to the schoolmen: excessively subtle: pedantic.-- n. one who adheres to the method or subtleties of the schools of the middle ages.-- adv. SCHOLAS'TICALLY, in a scholastic manner: according to the methods of the schools of philosophy.-- n. SCHOLAS'TICISM, the aims, methods, and products of thought which constituted the main endeavour of the intellectual life of the middle ages: the method or subtleties of the schools of philosophy: the collected body of doctrines of the schoolmen. [ Low L. scholaris-- L. schola.]

Synonyms for Scholar:

• adj.

  •expert (adjective)
  • specialist.

• n.

  •
  • auditor,
  • COED,
  • alum,
  • alumna,
  • fresher,
  • schoolboy,
  • BMP,
  • campus,
  • alumnus,
  • dropout,
  • Big Man on Campus.
  •
  • pundit,
  • uninitiated,
  • be unused to (doing) something,
  • uneducated,
  • naive,
  • illiterate,
  • scientist,
  • untrained,
  • inexperienced,
  • unskilled,
  • untried,
  • unqualified.
  •
  • wise.
  •
  • teach.
  •academic (noun)
  • scholastics,
  • academician,
  • academicians.
  •assimilator (noun)
  • assimilator.
  •authority (noun)
  • upstairs,
  • kingpins,
  • veteran,
  • top hand,
  • ivory dome,
  • top brass,
  • kingfish,
  • experts,
  • kingfishes,
  • pros,
  • wizards,
  • pro,
  • big wig,
  • power elite,
  • CEOS,
  • kingpin,
  • top dog,
  • FEDS.
  •booklover (noun)
  • bookworm.
  •bookworm (noun)
  • bibliophile,
  • bibliophiles.
  •brain (noun)
  • einsteins.
  •clergyperson (noun)
  • theologian.
  •educated person (noun)
  • learned person.
  •egghead (noun)
  • longhair,
  • know it all,
  • bluestockings,
  • bluestocking,
  • longhairs,
  • egghead.
  •expert, animate or inanimate (noun)
  • authority.
  •gentleperson (noun)
  • good people,
  • good egg,
  • good persons,
  • nice person,
  • nice persons,
  • good person,
  • nice people.
  •highbrow (noun)
  • philosopher,
  • savant,
  • literati,
  • Illuminati,
  • literato,
  • intelligentsia,
  • intelligentsias,
  • illuminato.
  •person actively learning (noun)
  • student.
  •person who is learning something (noun)
  • pupil.
  •person who is very involved in education and learning (noun)
  • litterateur,
  • schoolchild,
  • doctor,
  • person of letters,
  • intellectual,
  • professor,
  • disciple,
  • gnome,
  • augur,
  • sage,
  • bookish person,
  • academic,
  • learner,
  • wise person,
  • grind,
  • tool.
  •polite, well-mannered person (noun)
  • gentleperson.
  •pundit (noun)
  • learned ones,
  • learned one,
  • solon,
  • cereb.
  •pupil (noun)
  • schoolboy- girls,
  • first year student,
  • firstyear students,
  • sophomore,
  • graduate student,
  • under-graduate,
  • first year students,
  • first-year student,
  • schoolboy- girl,
  • schoolboy girl,
  • under graduate,
  • graduate students,
  • firstyear student,
  • sophomores,
  • first-year students,
  • under graduates,
  • schoolboy girls,
  • under-graduates,
  • juniors.
  •reader (noun)
  • reciter,
  • Peruser,
  • library patron,
  • user,
  • proofreader,
  • elocutionist,
  • research worker,
  • perusers,
  • lector,
  • proofreaders,
  • reciters,
  • lectors.
  •sage (noun)
  • consultant,
  • mandarin,
  • guru,
  • thinker,
  • adept.
  •scholarly person (noun)
  • scholarly person.
  •specialist (noun)
  • adepts,
  • technicians,
  • Specialists,
  • attending physician,
  • old pros,
  • technician,
  • old pro,
  • attending physicians.
  •student (noun)
  • GRADS,
  • grad,
  • registrants,
  • undergrad,
  • undergrads,
  • registrant,
  • schoolchildren.
  •teacher (noun)
  • schoolteacher,
  • teachers,
  • Abecedary,
  • educator,
  • schoolteachers,
  • faculty member.
  •thinker (noun)
  • Intellectualist,
  • wise woman,
  • sophist,
  • wise man,
  • theorists,
  • wise people,
  • intellectualists,
  • wise persons,
  • wise men,
  • sophists,
  • wise women.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • reader,
  • valedictorian,
  • teacher,
  • Hellenist,
  • philologist.
  •
  • linguist,
  • critic,
  • author,
  • brain.
  •
  • fellow.
  •classicist
  • humanist.
  •rationalist
  • logician.
  •theorizer
  • theorist.
  •translator
  • interpreter.

Paraphrases for Scholar:

• Reverse Entailment

  • Noun, singular or mass
    philosopher, savant.

• Independent

  • Proper noun, singular
    investigator, Investigators.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    investigator, practitioner.

• Other Related

  • Proper noun, singular
    researcher, Researchers, cleric, clerics, scientist, scientists, scholarship.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    researcher, clergyman, Clergymen, specialist, expert, cleric, scientist, searcher, school, intellectual, scholarship, literati, jurist, student, academician.

Antonyms for Scholar:

• n.

  • person who is very involved in education and learning
    pupil, ignoramus, student.
  • Other antonyms:
    illiterate person, goon, layman, idler, turkey, half-wit, moron.

Scholar Sentence Examples:

• I always want to take my hat off to the first scholar of his year.

• I think any scholar fortunate whose acquisition extends so far.

Homophones for Scholar:

• scullery, scalar, salary, salwar, sculler, seller, squalor, shoe collar, selar, sclera, sea lawyer, slur, slayer, school year, solar, soilure, sealer, solar year, scaler, squealer, sheller, sailor, schiller, solar array, secular, shalwar, slurry.

Hypernym for Scholar:

• n.

  • person
    initiate, shakespearian, post doc, musicologist, valedictorian, alum, licentiate, theologiser, medieval schoolman, Kabbalist, historiographer, Rhodes Scholar, salutatorian, master, theologizer, theologian, Masorite, Cabalist, schoolman, valedictory speaker, goliard, sinologist, doctor, salutatory speaker, humanist, theologist, Dr., Vedist, Islamist, historian, learned person, bibliophile, alumna, mujtihad, scholastic, renaissance man, grad, bibliographer, pundit, scholiast, booklover, academician, alumnus, generalist, Masorete, Massorete, arabist, savant, postdoc, pedant, philosopher, shakespearean, Philomath, reader, bookworm, book lover, graduate.

Hyponym for Scholar:

• n.

  • person
    intellect, pupil, intellectual, student, educatee.