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scholars

scholars is the plural of scholar.

Meaning of scholar

Noun

scholar (plural scholars)

  1. A student; one who studies at school or college, typically having a scholarship.
    Synonyms:
    student, pupil
  2. A specialist in a particular branch of knowledge.
    Synonyms:
    expert, specialist
  3. 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
    Synonyms:
    academic, learned person, savant, scholarly person, erudite
  4. (Singapore) Someone who received a prestigious scholarship.

Phrases with scholars

Questions about scholars

What is scholars the plural of?
Scholars is the plural of scholar.

Words near scholars in the dictionary

  1. scholarliness
  2. scholarly
  3. scholarly article
  4. scholarly articles
  5. scholarly method
  6. scholars
  7. scholars and gentlemen
  8. scholars' rocks
  9. scholarship
  10. scholarship holder
  11. scholarshiped

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