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scholar

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

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scholastic

English

Alternative forms

  • Scholastic
  • scholastick (archaic)

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French scholastique, from Latin scholasticus, from Ancient Greek ??????????? (skholastikós).

Pronunciation

  • (US) IPA(key): /sk??læst?k/
  • Rhymes: -æst?k

Noun

scholastic (plural scholastics)

  1. (philosophy) A member of the medieval philosophical school of scholasticism; a medieval Christian Aristotelian.

Translations

Adjective

scholastic (comparative more scholastic, superlative most scholastic)

  1. Of or relating to school; academic
  2. (philosophy) Of or relating to the philosophical tradition of scholasticism
  3. Characterized by excessive subtlety, or needlessly minute subdivisions; pedantic; formal.

Derived terms

  • scholasticism
  • scholastically

Related terms

  • scholar
  • academic

Translations

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