scholar : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: scholar	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for scholar
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
scholar n a learned person (especially in the humanities); someone who by long study has gained mastery in one or more disciplines Synonym(s): scholar, scholarly person, bookman, student someone (especially a child) who learns (as from a teacher) or takes up knowledge or beliefs Synonym(s): learner, scholar, assimilator a student who holds a scholarship
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Scholar \Schol"ar\, n. [OE. scoler, AS. sc[omac]lere, fr. L. scholaris belonging to a school, fr. schola a school. See {School}.] 1. 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. I am no breeching scholar in the schools. --Shak. 2. 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. --Shak. Locke. 3. A man of books. --Bacon. 4. In English universities, an undergraduate who belongs to the foundation of a college, and receives support in part from its revenues. Syn: Pupil; learner; disciple. Usage: {Scholar}, {Pupil}. Scholar refers to the instruction, and pupil to the care and government, of a teacher. A scholar is one who is under instruction; a pupil is one who is under the immediate and personal care of an instructor; hence we speak of a bright scholar, and an obedient pupil.