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scholar
- /ˈskɒlə/ UK
- /ˈskɑlɚ/ US
Rhymes with -ɒlə(ɹ)
Where it comes from
From Middle English scolar, scolare, scoler, scolere (also scholer), from Old English scōlere (“scholar, learner”), from Late Latin scholāris, from schola (“school”), from Ancient Greek σχολή (skholḗ, “spare time, leisure", later, "conversations and the knowledge gained through them during free time; the places where these conversations took place”), equivalent to school + -ar. Doublet of schooler, Schuyler, and escolar. Compare Saterland Frisian Sköiler, Middle Low German schö̂lære, schö̂lere, schö̂ler (> modern German Low German Schöler), Dutch scholier, German Schüler.
noun scholars
- A student; one who studies at school or college, typically having a scholarship.
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A specialist in a particular branch of knowledge.
Similar: expert, specialist
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A learned person; a bookman.
The ability of a segment of a glass sphere to magnify whatever is placed before it was known around the year 1000, when the spherical segment was called a reading stone,[…]. Scribes, illuminators, and scholars held such stones directly over manuscript pages as an aid in seeing what was being written
Similar: academic, learned person, savant, scholarly person, erudite
- Someone who received a prestigious scholarship.
Thesaurus
Closest in meaning: student, learner, scholarly person, schoolchild, university, academician, academia, professor, schoolboy, scholarship, attaché, officer, master, jurist, literati, stock
Translations
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noun a student; one who studies at school or college, typically having a scholarship
| Español | escolar |
|---|---|
| 한국어 | 학생 haksaeng |
| 日本語 | 学生 gakusei |
| 中文 | 學生 /学生 xuéshēng |
| हिन्दी | शोधार्थी śodhārthī, शोधकर्ता śodhkartā |
| Português | bolsista, bolseiro, bolseira |
| Français | étudiant |
| Deutsch | Student, Schüler, Schülerin, Studentin |
| Русский | уча́щийся učáščijsja, учени́к učeník, студе́нт studént |
| Tiếng Việt | học sinh |
noun specialist in a particular branch of knowledge
| Español | estudioso, docto |
|---|---|
| 한국어 | 학자 hakja |
| 日本語 | 学者 gakusha |
| 中文 | 學者 /学者 xuézhě |
| हिन्दी | विषेशज्ञ viṣeśajña |
| Kiswahili | mwanachuoni |
| Português | erudito, especialista, acadêmico, estudioso |
| Français | expert, spécialiste |
| Deutsch | Gelehrter |
| Italiano | studioso, erudito, dotto, accademico, letterato, ricercatore |
| Ελληνικά | λόγιος lógios |
| Română | învățat, erudit, savant |
| Русский | учёный učónyj, специали́ст specialíst |
| العربية | عَالِم ʕālim |
Talk about this word "scholar." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/scholar. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026. scholar. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/scholar "scholar." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/scholar.Cite this
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title = {scholar},
howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
year = {2026},
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urldate = {2026-11-06}
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