scholar
//ˈskɒlə//
formalForms
- Plural
- scholars
Definitions
1.A student; one who studies at school or college, typically having a scholarship.
2.A specialist in a particular branch of knowledge.
3.A learned person; a bookman.
4.Someone who received a prestigious scholarship.
Frequency
Overall
Uncommon· #2493
By learning goal
- Everyday conversation
- Rare
- General reading & writing
- Uncommon
- Academic
- Uncommon
- Literature
- Rare
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Etymology
From Middle English scolar, scolare, scoler, scolere (also scholer), from Old English scōlere (“scholar, learner”), from Late Latin scholāris, from schola (“school”), from Ancient Greek σχολή (skholḗ, “spare time, leisure", later, "conversations and the knowledge gained through them during free time; the places where these conversations took place”), equivalent to school + -ar.