Definition of Scholar

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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.

One engaged in the pursuits of learning; a learned person; one versed in any branch, or in many branches, of knowledge; a person of high literary or scientific attainments; a savant.

A man of books.

In English universities, an undergraduate who belongs to the foundation of a college, and receives support in part from its revenues.

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Scholar Quotations

A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
Lao Tzu

I am an old scholar, better-looking now than when I was young. That's what sitting on your ass does to your face.
Leonard Cohen

It has been the acknowledged right of every Marxist scholar to read into Marx the particular meaning that he himself prefers and to treat all others with indignation.
John Kenneth Galbraith

The mind of the scholar, if he would leave it large and liberal, should come in contact with other minds.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The learner always begins by finding fault, but the scholar sees the positive merit in everything.
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

The minute you try to talk business with him he takes the attitude that he is a gentleman and a scholar, and the moment you try to approach him on the level of his moral integrity he starts to talk business.
Raymond Chandler

His locked, lettered, braw brass collar, Shewed him the gentleman and scholar.
Robert Burns

Few are there that will leave the secure seclusion of the scholar's life, the peaceful walks of literature and learning, to stand out a target for the criticism of unkind and hostile minds.
Felix Adler

A good writer is basically a story teller, not a scholar or a redeemer of mankind.
Isaac Bashevis Singer

A scholar is like a book written in a dead language. It is not every one that can read in it.
William Hazlitt

Scholar Translations

scholar in Afrikaans is student
scholar in Danish is student
scholar in Dutch is student
scholar in German is Gelehrter
scholar in Latin is philologus
scholar in Norwegian is student
scholar in Portuguese is estudante
scholar in Spanish is escolar, erudito, estudiante

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