Scholar

Pronunciation

• UK IPA: /ˈskÉ’lÉ™/
• US IPA: /ˈskÉ‘lÉš/
• Rhymes: -É’lÉ™(r)

Origin

From Middle English scoler, from Old English scōlere ("scholar, learner"), from Late Latin scholāris, from schola ("school"), equivalent to school + -er.

Full definition of scholar

Noun

1. A student; one who studies at school or college.
2. A specialist in a particular branch of knowledge.
3. A learned person; a bookman.
• 2013, Henry Petroski, The Evolution of Eyeglasses, 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 written, drawn, or read.

Derived terms

• independent scholar

Related terms

• scholarship
• scholarly

Anagrams

• chorals