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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Scholar \Schol"ar\, n. [OE. scoler, AS sc[=o]lere, fr L.
scholaris belonging to a school, fr schola a school. See
{School}.]
1. One who attends a school; one who learns of a teacher; one
under the tuition of a preceptor; a pupil; a disciple; a
learner; a student.
I am no breeching scholar in the schools. --Shak.
2. One engaged in the pursuits of learning; a learned person;
one versed in any branch, or in many branches, of
knowledge; a person of high literary or scientific
attainments; a savant. --Shak. Locke.
3. A man of books. --Bacon.
4. In English universities, an undergraduate who belongs to
the foundation of a college, and receives support in part
from its revenues.
Syn: Pupil; learner; disciple.
Usage: {Scholar}, {Pupil}. Scholar refers to the instruction,
and pupil to the care and government, of a teacher. A
scholar is one who is under instruction; a pupil is
one who is under the immediate and personal care of an
instructor; hence we speak of a bright scholar, and an
obedient pupil.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
scholar
n 1: a learned person (especially in the humanities); someone who
by long study has gained mastery in one or more
disciplines [syn: {scholarly person}, {student}]
2: someone (especially a child) who learns (as from a teacher)
[syn: {learner}]
3: a student who holds a scholarship
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