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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)
- A student; one who studies at school or college, typically having a scholarship.
- A specialist in a particular branch of knowledge.
- 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)
- (philosophy) A member of the medieval philosophical school of scholasticism; a medieval Christian Aristotelian.
Translations
Adjective
scholastic (comparative more scholastic, superlative most scholastic)
- Of or relating to school; academic
- (philosophy) Of or relating to the philosophical tradition of scholasticism
- Characterized by excessive subtlety, or needlessly minute subdivisions; pedantic; formal.
Derived terms
- scholasticism
- scholastically
Related terms
- scholar
- academic
Translations
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