different between pedagogue vs scholar

English

Alternative forms

• pædagogue
• pedagog
• paedagogue

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French pedagogue, from Latin paedag?gus, from Ancient Greek ?????????? (paidag?gós), from ???? (paîs, “child”) + ?????? (ag?gós, “guide”) (from ??? (ág?, “lead”)).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?p?d????/

Noun

pedagogue (plural pedagogues)

1. A teacher or instructor of children; one whose occupation is to teach the young.

   • Jones chid the pedagogue for his interruption, and then the stranger proceeded.

2. A pedant; one who by teaching has become overly formal or pedantic in his or her ways; one who has the manner of a teacher.
   • a. 1774, Oliver Goldsmith, essay

     And now I have gone thus far, perhaps you will think me some pedagogue, willing, by a well-timed puff, to increase the reputation of his own school

3. (historical, Ancient Greece) A slave who led the master's children to school, and had the charge of them generally.

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Verb

pedagogue (third-person singular simple present pedagogues, present participle pedagoguing, simple past and past participle pedagogued)

1. To teach.

References

• Pedagogue in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)

Middle French

Etymology

First attested circa 1371, borrowed from Latin paedag?gus, from Ancient Greek ?????????? (paidag?gós).

Noun

pedagogue m (plural pedagogues)

1. pedagogue (one who teaches a child)

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English

Etymology

From Middle English scolar, scolare, scoler, scolere (also scholer), from Old English sc?lere (“scholar, learner”), from Late Latin schol?ris, from schola (“school”), from Ancient Greek ???????? (skholeîon), from ????? (skhol?, “spare time, leisure", later, "conversations and the knowledge gained through them during free time; the places where these conversations took place”), equivalent to school +? -er. Compare Saterland Frisian Sköiler, Middle Low German sch?lære, sch?lere, sch?ler (> modern German Low German Schöler), Dutch scholier, German Schüler. Doublet of escolar.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?sk?l?/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?sk?l?/
• Rhymes: -?l?(r)

Noun

scholar (plural scholars)

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.

Synonyms

• (student): pupil, student
• (specialist): expert, specialist
• (learned person): academic, learned person, savant, scholarly person, erudite

Derived terms

Related terms

• scholiast

Translations

See also

• savant

Further reading

• scholar in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• scholar in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Anagrams

• chorals, lorchas, orchals