scholar
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From Middle English scoler, from Old English scōlere (“scholar, learner”), from Late Latin scholāris, from schola (“school”), equivalent to school + -er.
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scholar (plural scholars)
- A student; one who studies at school or college.
- A specialist in a particular branch of knowledge.
- A learned person; a bookman.
- One who educates themself for their whole life.
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specialist in a particular branch of knowledge
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[edit] See also
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- scholar in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
- scholar in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
