scholar
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4.2
- noun
- /ˈskɑːlər/
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- The young scholar spent hours in the library researching ancient civilizations.
- young scholar
- liberal scholar
- American scholar
All right, Lex, What do scholars eat when they're hungry?
- All right, Lex, What do scholars eat when they're hungry?
- I'm not myself a, a biblical scholar or a theologian.
- I'm a middle-aged sedentary scholar who never really recovered from his wound in the war.
- Is it in alignment with what's expected of me as a student or as a scholar?
- I am a researcher, philosopher, scholar.
- I said dis flower, which is different, you know, but it was very much a kind of scholar versus poet debate.
- For example, They turn Joshua and David into learned Torah scholars, saying they had really no interest in warfare at all.
- And now here's my conversation with Diana Walsh Basalka, You are a scholar of religious belief or belief in general.
- And it's not that they're secret Satanic scholars trying to delete Bible verses.
- And of course he's a trained scholars, extremely smart guy, extremely smart guy.
- Plagued by a dark psychosis that no one detected, the young scholars prodigies arrogantly explain their heartless plan.
Examples
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One of you young scholars must understand why it's important that the body be pure before burial?
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My school, we prepare scholars to live life beyond graduation.
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So those what if questions were of great importance to me as a young scholar and teacher.
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In the front of the house, the young scholar is late at his books.
Fiction book (1992) -
I was quite a theater scholar once upon a time.
Fiction book (2001) -
You may even become the next generation of scholars and teachers who shape our paths here.
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Some scholars suggest that dance once was a form of communication as integral to our daily life as eating or sleeping.
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His heart was fixed on Anton's becoming a scholar, maybe even a priest.
Fiction book (1999) -
Meanwhile, it was the practice to educate talented colonial scholars in Britain.
Academic text (2003) -
As such, we should be alarmed that few students embrace or pursue the liberal scholar orientation.
Academic text (2008)
Synonyms
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1.0
A person who studies at a school or university
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2.7
A person who studies something carefully to find new information
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1.0
A person who gains knowledge and skills from study, practice or teaching
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8.9
A person with very great knowledge or skill in one subject
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4.4
A person who knows a lot about a subject from study
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9.4
A person who studies ancient Greek and Latin language, writings, and culture
A very respected expert with deep knowledge of a subject
A person in the Middle Ages who studied and taught philosophy at universities
Idioms
Compounds
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5.7
A student who has won a Rhodes Scholarship to study at the University of Oxford
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9.4
A person who studies ancient Greek and Latin language, writings, and culture
A tree that loses its leaves and has dark green leaf groups and creamy-white fragrant flowers
How Studious
Surface Forms
Etymology
Scholar comes from the old Greek word scholē, which meant 'free time' and later 'school', and it is the same root as school. So a scholar is simply a learner taught by a teacher or a person who studies a subject closely.