Synonyms for scholar
ˈskɒl ərschol·ar

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1. scholar

   The primary sense of a scholar is one who is being schooled; thence the word passes to denote one who is apt in school work, and finally one who is thoroughly schooled, master of what the schools can teach, an erudite, accomplished person: when used without qualification, the word is generally understood in this latter sense; as, he is manifestly a scholar. Pupil signifies one under the close personal supervision or instruction of a teacher or tutor. Those under instruction in schools below the academic grade are technically and officially termed pupils. The word pupil is uniformly so used in the Reports of the Commissioner of Education of the United States, but popular American usage prefers scholar in the original sense; as, teachers and scholars enjoyed a holiday. Those under instruction in Sunday-schools are uniformly designated as Sunday-school scholars. Student is applied to those in the higher grades or courses of study, as the academic, collegiate, scientific, etc. Student suggests less proficiency than scholar in the highest sense, the student being one who is learning, the scholar one who has learned. On the other hand, student suggests less of personal supervision than pupil; thus, the college student often becomes the private pupil of some instructor in special studies. For disciple, etc., compare synonyms for ADHERENT.

   Synonyms:
   disciple, learner, pupil, savant, student

   Antonyms:
   dunce, fool, idiot, idler, ignoramus, illiterate person

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1. scholar

   Synonyms:
   pupil, learner, disciple, student, schoolman, scientist, savant, gownsman, linguist

   Antonyms:
   master, teacher, preceptor, professor, ignoramus, dunce

Princeton's WordNetRate these synonyms:4.3 / 3 votes

1. scholar, scholarly person, bookman, studentnoun

   a learned person (especially in the humanities); someone who by long study has gained mastery in one or more disciplines

   Synonyms:
   bookman, assimilator, scholarly person, student, learner, educatee, pupil

2. learner, scholar, assimilatornoun

   someone (especially a child) who learns (as from a teacher) or takes up knowledge or beliefs

   Synonyms:
   bookman, apprentice, scholarly person, prentice, assimilator, student, learner

3. scholarnoun

   a student who holds a scholarship

   Synonyms:
   bookman, learner, assimilator, student, scholarly person

Matched Categories

1. • Person
   • Student

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1. scholarnoun

   Synonyms:
   disciple, pupil, student, learner

2. scholarnoun

   Synonyms:
   SAVANT, learned man, erudite person, one of the literati

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1. scholarnoun

   Synonyms:
   pupil, student, learner, disciple, savant, philomath

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1. List of paraphrases for "scholar":

   scholars, cleric, researcher, investigator, savant, academic, scientist, awardee, specialist

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1. Mohammed:

   The ink of a scholar is more sacred than the blood of the martyr.

2. George Frost Kennan:

   The very concept of history implies the scholar and the reader. Without a generation of civilized people to study history, to preserve its records, to absorb its lessons and relate them to its own problems, history, too, would lose its meaning.

3. Robert Kuttner:

   In terms of sheer experience, Brainard has punched all the tickets. It would be hard to imagine a more mainstream background, for the Wall Street allies of the Biden campaign, Brainard is ideal. As a career scholar and public official, she would presumably be less of a lightning rod for progressive critics than a Wall Street figure.

4. Bob Jones:

   I take serious issue when somebody who's done a little non-fighting time in Iraq, and is not a Middle East or Islamic scholar, claims to know better than our President and Secretary of State how to fathom the motivations of terrorists, or how to refer to them beyond the term that best describes them -- terrorists.

5. Bhavabhuti:

   The mind alike, Vigorous or weak, is capable of culture, But still bears fruit according to its nature. ?Tis not the teacher?s skill that rears the scholar: The sparkling gem gives back the glorious radiance It drinks from other light, but the dull earth Absorbs the blaze, and yields no gleam again.