scholar

Meaning

Noun

• 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.

Related

Similar words

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

Origin

• From Middle English scolar, scolare, scoler, scolere (also scholer), from Old English scōlere, from Late Latin scholāris, from schola, from Ancient Greek σχολεῖον, from σχολή, equivalent to school + -er. Compare Saterland Frisian Sköiler, Middle Low German schȫlære, schȫlere, schȫler (> modern German Low German Schöler), Dutch scholier, German Schüler. escolar.