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Noun: scholar  skó-lu(r)
  1. A learned person; someone who by long study has gained mastery in one or more disciplines
    "The scholar spent hours in the library researching ancient texts";
    - scholarly person
     
  2. A student who holds a scholarship
    "The diligent scholar maintained high grades to keep her academic funding"
     
  3. Someone (especially a child) who learns (as from a teacher) or takes up knowledge or beliefs
    "He was a quick scholar of new languages";
    - learner, assimilator, student

Derived forms: scholars

Type of: actor, doer, educatee, intellect, intellectual, pupil, student, worker

Encyclopedia: Scholar, Tom