scholarnoun [ C ]
uk/ˈskɒl.ər/us/ˈskɑː.lɚ/C1 a person who studies a subject in great detail, especially at a university:
a classics/history scholar
Dr Miles was a distinguished scholar of Russian history.
informal someone who is intelligent or good at learning by studying:
David's never been much of a scholar.
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- a leading scholar of Islamic economics
- a political scholar at the Brookings Institution
- a visiting scholar at the University of Tokyo
- Most scholars assert that Christ was born somewhere around this time.
- The theory has been widely discredited by scholars.
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Students & pupils
- -grader
- alumna
- alumnus
- attrition
- batchmate
- boarder
- entrant
- frosh
- graduate
- infant
- intern
- internship
- learner
- pupil
- schoolgirl
- schoolmate
- sixth-former
- sophomore
- student
- theologian
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