noun
scholar
SKO-luh
noun
1
A person with deep expert knowledge in a particular academic subject.
"She is a respected scholar of medieval European history."
2
A student, especially one holding a scholarship.
"He was a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford in the 1990s."
How to Use Scholar
Learner’s notesIn plain EnglishSomeone highly knowledgeable in an academic field, or a student on a scholarship.
Common pairings
leading scholar
a scholar of
Rhodes Scholar
Word Forms
scholars plural
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Etymology
From Old English scōlere ("learner"), from Late Latin scholāris, from schola ("school"), ultimately from Greek skholē ("leisure, learned discussion").