English Online Dictionary. What means scholar? What does scholar mean?
English
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.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈskɒlə/
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈskɑlɚ/
- Rhymes: -ɒlə(ɹ)
Noun
scholar (plural scholars)
- A student; one who studies at school or college, typically having a scholarship.
- Synonyms: student, pupil
- A specialist in a particular branch of knowledge.
- Synonyms: expert, specialist
- A learned person; a bookman.
- Synonyms: academic, learned person, savant, scholarly person, erudite
- (Singapore) Someone who received a prestigious scholarship.
Derived terms
Related terms
- scholiast
Translations
See also
- savant
- scholarch
- Thesaurus:humanities scholar
Further reading
- “scholar”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- “scholar”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
- “scholar”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
- “scholar”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
- “scholar”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016, →ISBN.
Anagrams
- chorals, lorchas, orchals