Word.ws English Dictionary

scholar's rock

scholar's rock noun: an unusually shaped rock, traditionally appreciated by Chinese scholars.

scholar's rock: an unusually shaped rock, traditionally appreciated by Chinese scholars
Image: Andreas Praefcke, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Noun

scholar's rock (plural scholars' rocks)

  1. An unusually shaped rock, traditionally appreciated by Chinese scholars.
    • The many Tibetans who traveled to Yuan and Ming China would have developed knowledge, experience, and appreciation for scholars' rocks.2004, Robert N. Linrothe, Paradise and Plumage, page 24
    • The scholar's rock is placed across from the old moon gate I love so much, and LuLu decides to investigate it.2007, Emily Prager, Wuhu Diary, page 122

Forms of scholar's rock

pluralscholars' rocks

Questions about scholar's rock

What does scholar's rock mean?
Scholar's rock means an unusually shaped rock, traditionally appreciated by Chinese scholars.
What part of speech is scholar's rock?
Scholar's rock is a noun.
What is the plural of scholar's rock?
The plural of scholar's rock is scholars' rocks.

Words near scholar's rock in the dictionary

  1. Scholar Green
  2. scholar's gown
  3. scholar's gowns
  4. scholar's mate
  5. scholar's mates
  6. scholar's rock
  7. scholarch
  8. scholarchate
  9. scholarchates
  10. scholarchs
  11. scholardom

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: scholar's rock (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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “scholar's rock.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/scholar%27s_rock. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.