adj
Meaning 1
Characteristic of a scholar.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
scholarly
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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/skɒ.lə.li/ non-rhotic
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/skɒ.ləɹ.li/ rhotic
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CMU ARPABET: S K AA1 L ER0 L IY0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
adj
Meaning 2
Of or relating to scholastics or scholarship.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
adv
Meaning 3
In a scholarly manner
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: US
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
adjective
Meaning 4
characteristic of scholars or scholarship
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- scholarly pursuits
- a scholarly treatise
- a scholarly attitude
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: unscholarly
History
Etymology
Etymology tree English scholar Proto-Indo-European *leyg-der. Proto-Germanic *līkąder. Proto-Germanic *-līkaz Proto-West Germanic *-līk Old English -līċ Middle English -ly English -ly English scholarly From scholar + -ly.
Across languages
Translations
20 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Bulgarian: начетен (načeten) — a characteristic of scholars
- Chinese: 学术性的;好学的;学术界的 — a characteristic of scholars
- German: gelehrt — a characteristic of scholars
- Greek: λόγιος (lógios) — a characteristic of scholars
- Spanish: docto — a characteristic of scholars
- Bulgarian: научен (naučen) — relating to scholars or scholarship
- French: érudit — relating to scholars or scholarship
- French: universitaire — relating to scholars or scholarship
- German: wissenschaftlich — relating to scholars or scholarship
- Greek: ακαδημαϊκός (akadimaïkós) — relating to scholars or scholarship
- Hungarian: tudományos — relating to scholars or scholarship
- Hungarian: tudós — relating to scholars or scholarship
- Irish: léannta — relating to scholars or scholarship
- Italian: erudito — relating to scholars or scholarship
- Romanian: erudit — relating to scholars or scholarship
- Romanian: academic — relating to scholars or scholarship
- Romanian: universitar — relating to scholars or scholarship
- Russian: учёный (učónyj) — relating to scholars or scholarship
- Spanish: universitario — relating to scholars or scholarship
- Thai: เชิงวิชาการ — relating to scholars or scholarship
Real reading context