- a person who knows a lot about a particular subject because they have studied it in detail
- a classical scholar
- He was the most distinguished scholar in his field.
Extra Examples- Literary scholars have argued about this matter for years.
- She is the most distinguished scholar in her field.
- a scholar of the Enlightenment
- an eminent German scholar
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- brilliant
- great
- leading
- …
- a student who has been given a scholarship to study at a school, college or university
- a Rhodes scholar
- (British English, informal) a clever person who works hard at school
- I was never much of a scholar.
Word OriginOld English scol(i)ere ‘schoolchild, student’, from late Latin scholaris, from Latin schola, from Greek skholē ‘leisure, philosophy, lecture-place’.
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