English Explanatory Dictionary

scholar

English dictionary entry

Meanings

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.
  4. Someone who received a prestigious scholarship.

Pronunciation

/ˈskɒlə/ /ˈskɑlɚ/ LL-Q1860 (eng)-I learned some phrases-scholar.wav

Word forms

scholar scholars

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.

Synonyms

student pupil expert specialist academic learned person savant scholarly person erudite

Related words

scholiast savant scholarch humanities scholar

Derived words

choral scholar day-scholar gentleman and scholar independent scholar King's Scholar nonscholar organ scholar Oxford scholar Queen's Scholar scholar and gentleman scholaress Scholar Green scholarism scholarless scholarlike scholarly scholar's gown scholarship scholar's mate visiting scholar
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