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Scholar

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.

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Narrower term 36

Academician 76% connected

A member of an academy, or society for promoting science, art, or literature, as of the French Academy, or the Royal Academy of arts.

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Alum 76% connected

A double sulphate formed of aluminium and some other element (esp. an alkali metal) or of aluminium. It has twenty-four molecules of water of crystal…

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Arabist 76% connected

One well versed in the Arabic language or literature; also, formerly, one who followed the Arabic system of surgery.

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Bibliographer 76% connected

One who writes, or is versed in, bibliography.

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Bibliophile 76% connected

A lover of books.

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Bookman 76% connected

A studious man; a scholar.

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Bookworm 76% connected

Any larva of a beetle or moth, which is injurious to books. Many species are known.

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Cabalist 76% connected

One versed in the cabala, or the mysteries of Jewish traditions.

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Doctor 76% connected

A teacher; one skilled in a profession, or branch of knowledge learned man.

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Goliard 76% connected

A buffoon in the Middle Ages, who attended rich men's tables to make sport for the guests by ribald stories and songs.

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Graduate 76% connected

To mark with degrees; to divide into regular steps, grades, or intervals, as the scale of a thermometer, a scheme of punishment or rewards, etc.

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Grind 76% connected

To reduce to powder by friction, as in a mill, or with the teeth; to crush into small fragments; to produce as by the action of millstones.

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Historian 76% connected

A writer of history; a chronicler; an annalist.

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Historiographer 76% connected

An historian; a writer of history; especially, one appointed or designated to write a history; also, a title bestowed by some governments upon histor…

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Humanist 76% connected

One of the scholars who in the field of literature proper represented the movement of the Renaissance, and early in the 16th century adopted the name…

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Initiate 76% connected

To introduce by a first act; to make a beginning with; to set afoot; to originate; to commence; to begin or enter upon.

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Licentiate 76% connected

One who has a license to exercise a profession; as, a licentiate in medicine or theology.

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Masorite 76% connected

One of the writers of the Masora.

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Master 76% connected

A vessel having (so many) masts; -- used only in compounds; as, a two-master.

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Pedant 76% connected

A schoolmaster; a pedagogue.

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Philomath 76% connected

A lover of learning; a scholar.

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Philosopher 76% connected

One who philosophizes; one versed in, or devoted to, philosophy.

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Pundit 76% connected

A learned man; a teacher; esp., a Brahman versed in the Sanskrit language, and in the science, laws, and religion of the Hindoos; in Cashmere, any cl…

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Reader 76% connected

One who reads.

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Salutatorian 76% connected

The student who pronounces the salutatory oration at the annual Commencement or like exercises of a college, -- an honor commonly assigned to that me…

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Savant 76% connected

A man of learning; one versed in literature or science; a person eminent for acquirements.

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Scholastic 76% connected

Pertaining to, or suiting, a scholar, a school, or schools; scholarlike; as, scholastic manners or pride; scholastic learning.

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Scholiast 76% connected

A maker of scholia; a commentator or annotator.

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Schoolman 76% connected

One versed in the niceties of academical disputation or of school divinity.

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Shakespearean 76% connected

Of, pertaining to, or in the style of, Shakespeare or his works.

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Sinologist 76% connected

A sinologue.

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Sponge 76% connected

Any one of numerous species of Spongiae, or Porifera. See Illust. and Note under Spongiae.

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Theologian 76% connected

A person well versed in theology; a professor of theology or divinity; a divine.

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Theologist 76% connected

A theologian.

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Theologizer 76% connected

One who theologizes; a theologian.

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Valedictorian 76% connected

One who pronounces a valedictory address; especially, in American colleges, the student who pronounces the valedictory of the graduating class at the…

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Actor 76% connected

One who acts, or takes part in any affair; a doer.

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Doer 76% connected

One who does; one performs or executes; one who is wont and ready to act; an actor; an agent.

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Intellect 76% connected

The part or faculty of the human soul by which it knows, as distinguished from the power to feel and to will; sometimes, the capacity for higher form…

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Intellectual 76% connected

Belonging to, or performed by, the intellect; mental; as, intellectual powers, activities, etc.

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Pupil 76% connected

The aperture in the iris; the sight, apple, or black of the eye. See the Note under Eye, and Iris.

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Student 76% connected

A person engaged in study; one who is devoted to learning; a learner; a pupil; a scholar; especially, one who attends a school, or who seeks knowledg…

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Worker 76% connected

One who, or that which, works; a laborer; a performer; as, a worker in brass.

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Acquire 74% connected

To gain, usually by one's own exertions; to get as one's own; as, to acquire a title, riches, knowledge, skill, good or bad habits.

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Acquire 74% connected

To gain, usually by one's own exertions; to get as one's own; as, to acquire a title, riches, knowledge, skill, good or bad habits.

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Scholarly 74% connected

Like a scholar, or learned person; showing the qualities of a scholar; as, a scholarly essay or critique.

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Scholarly 74% connected

Like a scholar, or learned person; showing the qualities of a scholar; as, a scholarly essay or critique.

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Scholarship 74% connected

The character and qualities of a scholar; attainments in science or literature; erudition; learning.

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Scholarship 74% connected

The character and qualities of a scholar; attainments in science or literature; erudition; learning.

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Learner 92% connected

One who learns; a scholar.

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Student 92% connected

A person engaged in study; one who is devoted to learning; a learner; a pupil; a scholar; especially, one who attends a school, or who seeks knowledg…

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