SCHOLAR: Synonyms and Related Words. What is Another Word for SCHOLAR?

Need another word that means the same as “scholar”? Find 21 synonyms and 30 related words for “scholar” in this overview.

The synonyms of “Scholar” are: assimilator, learner, bookman, student, academic, intellectual, professor, man of letters, woman of letters, mind, intellect, savant, polymath, highbrow, bluestocking, thinker, sage, pupil, schoolchild, schoolboy, schoolgirl

Scholar as a Noun

Definitions of "Scholar" as a noun

According to the Oxford Dictionary of English, “scholar” as a noun can have the following definitions:

• Someone (especially a child) who learns (as from a teacher) or takes up knowledge or beliefs.
• A student or pupil.
• A learned person (especially in the humanities); someone who by long study has gained mastery in one or more disciplines.
• A university student holding a scholarship.
• A student who holds a scholarship.
• A person who is highly educated or has an aptitude for study.
• A specialist in a particular branch of study, especially the humanities.

Synonyms of "Scholar" as a noun (21 Words)

academic	An educator who works at a college or university. The EU offers grants to academics for research on approved projects.
assimilator	Someone (especially a child) who learns (as from a teacher) or takes up knowledge or beliefs. Even for dedicated assimilators like my parents a Christmas tree would have been a bridge too far.
bluestocking	A woman having literary or intellectual interests. Bluestocking women.
bookman	A literary man.
highbrow	A highbrow person. She considered all those without television as highbrows intellectual snobs or paupers.
intellect	Knowledge and intellectual ability. He has a keen intellect.
intellectual	A person possessing a highly developed intellect. A prominent political thinker and intellectual.
learner	A person who is learning a subject or skill. A fast learner.
man of letters	An adult person who is male (as opposed to a woman.
mind	Knowledge and intellectual ability. Anyone can slim if they set their mind to it.
polymath	A person of great and varied learning. A Renaissance polymath.
professor	An associate professor or an assistant professor. The professors of true religion.
pupil	A learner who is enrolled in an educational institution. Will you take me on as your pupil.
sage	Used in names of aromatic plants of the mint family that resemble sage e g wood sage.
savant	A learned person, especially a distinguished scientist.
schoolboy	Characteristic of or associated with schoolboys. Schoolboy cricketers.
schoolchild	A young person attending school (up through senior high school.
schoolgirl	Characteristic of or associated with schoolgirls. Schoolgirl French.
student	A learner who is enrolled in an educational institution. A maths student.
thinker	An important intellectual. A leading scientific thinker.
woman of letters	A human female employed to do housework.

Usage Examples of "Scholar" as a noun

• A Hebrew scholar.
• Mr Bell declares himself no scholar.
• A phrase borrowed from the Indian scholar Ananda Coomaraswamy.
• A Rhodes scholar.

Associations of "Scholar" (30 Words)

academician	Someone elected to honorary membership in an academy.
admired	Regarded with admiration.
analytic	True by virtue of the meaning of the words or concepts used to express it, so that its denial would be a self-contradiction. An analytic approach.
annalist	A historian who writes annals.
archaeology	The branch of anthropology that studies prehistoric people and their cultures.
dialectician	A logician skilled in dialectic.
disciple	A follower or pupil of a teacher, leader, or philosopher. A disciple of Rousseau.
economist	An expert in the science of economics.
geometer	A geometrid moth or its caterpillar.
historian	A person who is an authority on history and who studies it and writes about it. A military historian.
logician	An expert in or student of logic. A leading mathematical logician.
mathematician	An expert in or student of mathematics. One of the world s foremost theoretical mathematicians.
metallurgical	Of or relating to metallurgy. Metallurgical engineer.
philosopher	A specialist in philosophy.
philosophy	Any personal belief about how to live or how to deal with a situation. My father s philosophy of child rearing was to let mother do it.
physicist	An expert in or student of physics.
professor	An associate professor or an assistant professor. A professor of Art History.
researcher	A person whose job involves discovering or verifying information for use in a book, programme, etc. Radio and TV researchers.
scientist	A person with advanced knowledge of one or more sciences. A research scientist.
sinologist	A student of Chinese history and language and culture.
sociologist	A social scientist who studies the institutions and development of human society. Historians and sociologists are still split on the matter.
sophism	A clever but false argument, especially one used deliberately to deceive.
sophist	Any of a group of Greek philosophers and teachers in the 5th century BC who speculated on a wide range of subjects.
sophistry	A deliberately invalid argument displaying ingenuity in reasoning in the hope of deceiving someone. Trying to argue that I had benefited in any way from the disaster was pure sophistry.
specialist	A person highly trained in a particular branch of medicine. He is a specialist in psychometric testing.
statistician	A mathematician who specializes in statistics.
study	A room used for reading and writing and studying. He is a quick study.
syllogistic	Of or relating to or consisting of syllogism.
taxonomist	A biologist who specializes in the classification of organisms into groups on the basis of their structure and origin and behavior.
taxonomy	Practice of classifying plants and animals according to their presumed natural relationships. The taxonomy of these fossils.