Scholar - definition, pronunciation, transcription
noun
- someone (especially a child) who learns (as from a teacher) or takes up knowledge or beliefs (syn: learner)
- a student who holds a scholarship
Extra examples
She's a renowned scholar of African-American history.
...scholars have long debated whether there is ever such a thing as a truly selfless act...
He was a King's scholar at Eton College.
Moby-Dick is required reading for any scholar of 19th-century American literature.
The Russian scholar defected in 1979.
She is a noted scholar specializing in Latin-American literature.
...an arrogant scholar who never passes up an opportunity to posture and perorate on stunningly unimportant matters...
...she's an excellent scholar of political science, but lacks the kind of savvy needed to run for public office...
...a sheepish scholar who is most comfortable when surrounded by books...
She impressed me as a scholar.
He had studied the case with the minuteness with which a scholar studies a dead language.
He was afraid another scholar was going to steal a march on him and publish first.
A tavern row between scholar and townsman widens into a general broil.
As a scholar he was brilliant; but he consumed his power in agonistic displays.
The scholar annotated the early edition of a famous novel
Word forms
singular: scholar
plural: scholars
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