scholar
/ˈskɒlə/US/ˈskɑlɚ/
scholar noun: a student; one who studies at school or college, typically having a scholarship.
Noun
scholar (plural scholars)
- A student; one who studies at school or college, typically having a scholarship.
- A specialist in a particular branch of knowledge.
- Synonyms:
- expert, specialist
- A learned person; a bookman.
- 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...2013 September-October, Henry Petroski, “The Evolution of Eyeglasses”, in American Scientist
- Someone who received a prestigious scholarship.
scholar meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Bengali
scholar in Hindi
- a student; one who studies at school or college, typically having a scholarship
- शोधार्थी śodhārthī, शोधकर्ता śodhkartā
- specialist in a particular branch of knowledge
- विषेशज्ञ viṣeśajña
- learned person
- पंडित paṇḍit
scholar in Tamil
- specialist in a particular branch of knowledge
- அறிஞர் aṟiñar
- learned person
- அறிஞர் aṟiñar, கற்றார் kaṟṟār
scholar in Urdu
- specialist in a particular branch of knowledge
- عالِم 'ālim, دانِشْوَر dāniśvar
scholar in Bengali
- scholar
- পণ্ডিত ponḍito
More languagesFewer languages
- scholar in Malayalam
- പണ്ഡിതൻ paṇḍitaṉ, വിദഗ്ദ്ധൻ vidagddhaṉ, വിദ്വാൻ vidvāṉ
- scholar in Kannada
- ಧಿಷಣ, ಬುದ್ಧಿವಂತ, ಮೇಧಾವಿ, ಅರುಹಿಗ
- scholar in Punjabi
- ਗਿਆਨੀ giānī, ਪੰਡਤ paṇḍat
- scholar in Sanskrit
- पण्डित paṇḍita
- scholar in Assamese
- ওজা üza
- scholar in Pashto
- پوهاند pohānd
- scholar in Tagalog
- paaralin, palaaral, pantas, paham
- scholar in Arabic
- عَالِم ʕālim
- scholar in Indonesian
- sarjana, cendekiawan
- scholar in Vietnamese
- học sinh
Examples of scholar in a sentence
- Many scholars consider the stories of the monk Teilo to be apocryphal.
- Virtually all modern scholars of antiquity agree that Jesus existed historically.
- The scholar kept his revered books in a special part of the library.
Synonyms of scholar
Forms of scholar
| plural | scholars |
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Origin of scholar
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. Doublet of schooler, Schuyler, and escolar. Compare Saterland Frisian Sköiler, Middle Low German schö̂lære, schö̂lere, schö̂ler (> modern German Low German Schöler), Dutch scholier, German Schüler.
Words formed from scholar
- Chinese scholar tree
- 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
Phrases with scholar
Words that rhyme with scholar
Questions about scholar
- What does scholar mean?
- Scholar means a student; one who studies at school or college, typically having a scholarship.
- What is scholar in Hindi?
- Scholar in Hindi is शोधार्थी (śodhārthī), शोधकर्ता (śodhkartā), विषेशज्ञ (viṣeśajña). See Scholar meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is scholar?
- Scholar is a noun.
- How do you pronounce scholar?
- Scholar is pronounced /ˈskɒlə/ (UK).
- What is the plural of scholar?
- The plural of scholar is scholars.
Words near scholar in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: scholar (page history and authors); পণ্ডিত (Bengali) (page history and authors); scholar (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); ਗਿਆਨੀ (Punjabi) (page history and authors); ওজা (Assamese) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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