scholar

noun

schol·​ar ˈskä-lər How to pronounce scholar (audio)
1
: a person who attends a school or studies under a teacher : pupil
2
a
: a person who has done advanced study in a special field
b
: a learned person
3
: a holder of a scholarship

Examples of scholar in a Sentence

She's a renowned scholar of African-American history. scholars have long debated whether there is ever such a thing as a truly selfless act
Recent Examples on the Web So, this Thanksgiving Day weekend, co-anchor Martha Raddatz, a big Minnesota Vikings fan sat down with the team's quarterback, the pastor not (ph) as he is known, a gifted athlete and scholar with an aerospace engineering degree and a perfect 4.0. ABC News, 26 Nov. 2023 Graphic: Joe Murphy / NBC News Why testing for Covid is still useful Dr. Amesh Adalja, an infectious disease physician and senior scholar at the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security, said people don’t need to test with the same rigor as at the height of the pandemic. Katie Mogg, NBC News, 20 Nov. 2023 Other scholars of nostalgia have noted that until the nineteenth century it was regarded as more a geographic longing than a temporal one, homesickness for a place rather than for an era. Thomas Mallon, The New Yorker, 20 Nov. 2023 Mark Kelly Hillsdale, Mich. Paul Rahe is one of the world’s top scholars of ancient military history. Tunku Varadarajan, WSJ, 17 Nov. 2023 The Israeli scholar and military strategist Eitan Shamir, one of the authors of that phrase, has now declared this tactic insufficient. Shivshankar Menon, Foreign Affairs, 16 Nov. 2023 Today, scholars are also examining how cabinets of curiosities—specifically, the ways they were compiled and displayed—are tied to colonialist worldviews. Anne Wallentine, Smithsonian Magazine, 16 Nov. 2023 Among Americans killed or missing in Israel: A scholar, a nurse, tourists Goldberg and her family moved to Israel about 15 years ago to live in a place where the majority of people are Jewish. Ellie Silverman, Washington Post, 14 Nov. 2023 As scholars of comparative politics would agree, different religions largely produce different cultures which beget different values, with those different values producing sometimes vastly different political outcomes and institutions. Bradley Gitz, arkansasonline.com, 13 Nov. 2023 See More

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Word History

Etymology

Middle English scoler, from Old English scolere & Anglo-French escoler, from Medieval Latin scholaris, from Late Latin, of a school, from Latin schola school

First Known Use

before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1

Time Traveler
The first known use of scholar was before the 12th century

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Cite this Entry

“Scholar.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/scholar. Accessed 4 Dec. 2023.

Kids Definition

scholar

noun
schol·​ar ˈskäl-ər How to pronounce scholar (audio)
1
: a person who attends a school or studies under a teacher : pupil
2
a
: a person who has done advanced study in a special area
b
: a learned person
3
: a holder of a scholarship
scholarly adjective

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