Scholar
['skɒlə] or ['skɑlɚ]
Definition
(noun.) a learned person (especially in the humanities); someone who by long study has gained mastery in one or more disciplines.
(noun.) a student who holds a scholarship.
Typist: Toni--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) One who attends a school; one who learns of a teacher; one under the tuition of a preceptor; a pupil; a disciple; a learner; a student.
(n.) One engaged in the pursuits of learning; a learned person; one versed in any branch, or in many branches, of knowledge; a person of high literary or scientific attainments; a savant.
(n.) A man of books.
(n.) In English universities, an undergraduate who belongs to the foundation of a college, and receives support in part from its revenues.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Disciple, pupil, student, learner.[2]. Savant, learned man, erudite person, one of the literati.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Pupil, learner, disciple, student, schoolman, scientist, savant, gownsman,linguist
ANT:Master, teacher, preceptor, professor, ignoramus, dunce
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Definition
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.
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Examples
- Before the invention of the art of printing, a scholar and a beggar seem to have been terms very nearly synonymous. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- A young scholar of mine, my Lady. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- I ain't a scholar in much, Rokesmith, but I'm a pretty fair scholar in dust. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Doctor Strong refers to me in public as a promising young scholar. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- I'm a poor scholar, but I shall write to you, odd times, when you're away, and send my letters to Mas'r Davy. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- St. John is an accomplished and profound scholar. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- The fee or honorary, which the scholar pays to the master, naturally constitutes a revenue of this kind. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- Father says she was quite a scholar. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- But then you've got to be a scholar. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- I an't a scholar. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- And though other pupils had taken more than his place as to time, no one was like his first scholar in Mr. Hale's heart. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- Well, Pip, said Joe, be it so or be it son't, you must be a common scholar afore you can be a oncommon one, I should hope! Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- Besides, this time I have something really interesting to tell you about a new scholar. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- Hanau, the valet of Gutenberg’s father, and a young scholar named Martin Duttlinger, joined them at the outset. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- I liked to learn of her: I saw the part of instructress pleased and suited her; that of scholar pleased and suited me no less. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- I had amongst my scholars several farmers' daughters: young women grown, almost. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- There was a fiction that Mr. Wopsle examined the scholars once a quarter. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- Most despicable would it be to come for the sake of those sheep-faced Sunday scholars, and not for my sake or that long skeleton Moore's. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- More scholars are turned out in the City of the Sun in one year than by contemporary methods in ten or fifteen. Plato. The Republic.
- Some time elapsed before, with all my efforts, I could comprehend my scholars and their nature. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- The monasteries contained many monks who were excellent scholars. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- But by that time all the scholars of the city were supplied, and it was very difficult to send the books to other cities. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- His majesty sent for three great scholars, who were then in their weekly waiting, according to the custom in that country. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- I had twenty scholars. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- It is a village school: your scholars will be only poor girls--cottagers' children--at the best, farmers' daughters. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- Few scholars would have disliked teaching the alphabet under such circumstances. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Here he also resumed his earlier studies, and came to lecture on natural history and physics to all the great scholars of the day. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- To revive the ancient government you must have the ancient patriots, poets, and scholars. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- Nothing could be better than all her arrangements for the physical well-being of her scholars. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- I bethought myself to talk about the school and my scholars. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
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