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noun
A student; one who studies at school or college, typically having a scholarship.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Synonyms: student, pupil
Antonyms: none provided
noun
A specialist in a particular branch of knowledge.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Synonyms: expert, specialist
Antonyms: none provided
noun
A learned person; a bookman.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Synonyms: academic, learned person, savant, scholarly person, erudite
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noun
Someone who received a prestigious scholarship.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Singapore
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noun
someone (especially a child) who learns (as from a teacher) or takes up knowledge or beliefs
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: learner, assimilator
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: person, individual, someone, somebody, mortal, soul
Narrower terms: memorizer, memoriser, quick study, sponge, swot, grind, nerd, wonk, dweeb, tutee
noun
a learned person (especially in the humanities); someone who by long study has gained mastery in one or more disciplines
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: scholarly person, bookman, student
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: intellectual, intellect
Narrower terms: academician, schoolman, alumnus, alumna, alum, graduate, grad, Arabist, bibliographer, bibliophile, booklover, book lover, Cabalist, Kabbalist, doctor, Dr., goliard, historian, historiographer, humanist, initiate, learned person, pundit, savant, Islamist, licentiate, Masorete, Massorete, Masorite, master, mujtihad, musicologist, pedant, bookworm, scholastic, philomath, philosopher, postdoc, post doc, reader, Renaissance man, generalist, salutatorian, salutatory speaker, scholiast, medieval Schoolman, Shakespearian, Shakespearean, Sinologist, theologian, theologist, theologizer, theologiser, valedictorian, valedictory speaker, Vedist, Crichton, James Crichton, The Admirable Crichton, Lorenzo de'Medici, Lorenzo the Magnificent, Malone, Edmund Malone, Edmond Malone, Varro, Marcus Terentius Varro
noun
a student who holds a scholarship
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: student, pupil, educatee
Narrower terms: Rhodes scholar
History
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.
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