scholar

Noun
  1. A learned person (especially in the humanities);
    Someone who by long study has gained mastery in one or more disciplines (synset 110577282)
    is a type of: intellect, intellectual - a person who uses the mind creatively
    subtypes:
    • academician, schoolman - a scholar who is skilled in academic disputation
    • alum, alumna, alumnus, grad, graduate - a person who has received a degree from a school (high school or college or university)
    • arabist - a scholar who specializes in Arab languages and culture
    • bibliographer - someone trained in compiling bibliographies
    • bibliophile, book lover, booklover - someone who loves (and usually collects) books
    • cabalist, kabbalist - a student of the Jewish Kabbalah
    • doctor, dr. - a person who holds Ph.D. degree (or the equivalent) from an academic institution
    • goliard - a wandering scholar in medieval Europe; famed for intemperance and riotous behavior and the composition of satirical and ribald Latin songs
    • historian, historiographer - a person who is an authority on history and who studies it and writes about it
    • humanist - a classical scholar or student of the liberal arts
    • initiate, learned person, pundit, savant - someone who has been admitted to membership in a scholarly field
    • islamist - a scholar who knowledgeable in Islamic studies
    • licentiate - holds a license (degree) from a (European) university
    • masorete, masorite, massorete - a scholar who is expert on the Masorah (especially one of the Jewish scribes who contributed to the Masorah)
    • master - someone who holds a master's degree from academic institution
    • mujtihad - an Islamic scholar who engages in ijtihad, the effort to derive rules of divine law from Muslim sacred texts
    • musicologist - a student of musicology
    • bookworm, pedant, scholastic - a person who pays more attention to formal rules and book learning than they merit
    • philomath - a lover of learning
    • philosopher - a specialist in philosophy
    • post doc, postdoc - a scholar or researcher who is involved in academic study beyond the level of a doctoral degree
    • reader - a person who enjoys reading
    • renaissance man - a scholar during the Renaissance who (because knowledge was limited) could know almost everything about many topics
    • generalist, renaissance man - a modern scholar who is in a position to acquire more than superficial knowledge about many different interests
    • salutatorian, salutatory speaker - a graduating student with the second highest academic rank; may deliver the opening address at graduation exercises
    • scholiast - a scholar who writes explanatory notes on an author (especially an ancient commentator on a classical author)
    • medieval schoolman, schoolman - a scholar in one of the universities of the Middle Ages; versed in scholasticism
    • shakespearean, shakespearian - a Shakespearean scholar
    • sinologist - a student of Chinese history and language and culture
    • theologian, theologiser, theologist, theologizer - someone who is learned in theology or who speculates about theology
    • valedictorian, valedictory speaker - the student with the best grades who usually delivers the valedictory address at commencement
    • vedist - a scholar of or an authority on the Vedas
    specific instances:
    same as: bookman, scholarly person, student
  2. Someone (especially a child) who learns (as from a teacher) or takes up knowledge or beliefs (synset 110271476)
    is a type of: individual, mortal, person, somebody, someone, soul - a human being
    subtypes:
    same as: assimilator, learner
  3. A student who holds a scholarship (synset 110578201)
    is a type of: educatee, pupil, student - a learner who is enrolled in an educational institution
    subtypes: rhodes scholar - a student who holds one of the scholarships endowed by the will of Cecil J. Rhodes that enables the student to study at Oxford University

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