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|passage=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, drawn, or read.}} |
|passage=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, drawn, or read.}} |
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# One who educates themselves for their whole life. {{fact}} |
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Revision as of 19:42, 16 March 2014
English
Etymology
From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle English (deprecated template usage) scoler, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old English Template:term/t, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Late Latin Template:term/t, from (deprecated template usage) schola, equivalent to Lua error in Module:parameters at line 360: Parameter 1 should be a valid language or etymology language code; the value "school" is not valid. See WT:LOL and WT:LOL/E..
Pronunciation
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Noun
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.
Derived terms
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Translations
specialist in a particular branch of knowledge
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learned person
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See also
External links
- “scholar”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- “scholar”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.