scholar
nounEtymology
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. Compare Saterland Frisian Sköiler, Middle Low German schö̂lære, schö̂lere, schö̂ler (> modern German Low German Schöler), Dutch scholier, German Schüler. Doublet of escolar.
Definitions
A student
A student; one who studies at school or college, typically having a scholarship.
A specialist in a particular branch of knowledge.
A learned person
A learned person; a bookman.
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Someone who received a prestigious scholarship.
The neighborhood
- neighborscholiast
- neighborsavant
- neighborscholarch
- neighborhumanities scholar
Derived
choral scholar, day-scholar, gentleman and scholar, independent scholar, King's Scholar, nonscholar, organ scholar, Oxford scholar, Queen's Scholar, scholar and gentleman, scholaress, Scholar Green, scholarism, scholarless, scholarlike, scholarly, scholar's gown, scholarship, scholar's mate, visiting scholar
Vish — recursive loop
A definitional loop anchored at scholar. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.
A definitional loop anchored at scholar. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.
7 hops · closes at scholar
curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.
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