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

Need another word that means the same as “scholars”? Find 4 synonyms and 30 related words for “scholars” in this overview.

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Scholars as a Noun
Definitions of "Scholars" as a noun
Synonyms of "Scholars" as a noun (4 Words)
Associations of "Scholars" (30 Words)

The synonyms of “Scholars” are: assimilator, learner, bookman, student

Scholars as a Noun

Definitions of "Scholars" as a noun

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

A student who holds a scholarship.
Someone (especially a child) who learns (as from a teacher) or takes up knowledge or beliefs.
A learned person (especially in the humanities); someone who by long study has gained mastery in one or more disciplines.

Synonyms of "Scholars" as a noun (4 Words)

assimilator	A person who assimilates or engages in assimilation. Even for dedicated assimilators like my parents a Christmas tree would have been a bridge too far.
bookman	A learned person (especially in the humanities); someone who by long study has gained mastery in one or more disciplines.
learner	A person who is learning a subject or skill. A fast learner.
student	A person who takes an interest in a particular subject. A student* of sociology.*

Associations of "Scholars" (30 Words)

academician	Someone elected to honorary membership in an academy.
admired	Regarded with admiration.
analytic	Using or skilled in using analysis (i.e., separating a whole–intellectual or substantial–into its elemental parts or basic principles. An analytic* experiment.*
annalist	A historian who writes annals.
archaeology	The study of human history and prehistory through the excavation of sites and the analysis of artefacts and other physical remains.
dialectician	A logician skilled in dialectic.
disciple	A personal follower of Christ during his life, especially one of the twelve Apostles. 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	A person skilled at symbolic logic. A leading mathematical logician.
mathematician	A person skilled in mathematics. One of the world s foremost theoretical mathematicians.
metallurgical	Of or relating to metallurgy. Metallurgical engineer.
philosopher	A specialist in philosophy.
philosophy	A belief (or system of beliefs) accepted as authoritative by some group or school. The philosophy* of science.*
physicist	A scientist trained in physics.
professor	An associate professor or an assistant professor. A professor* of Art History.*
researcher	A scientist who devotes himself to doing research. A medical researcher* who pioneered the development of antibiotics.*
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	An expert in or student of the development, structure, and functioning 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	A person who reasons with clever but false arguments.
sophistry	The use of clever but false arguments, especially with the intention of deceiving. Trying to argue that I had benefited in any way from the disaster was pure sophistry.
specialist	Concentrating on a restricted field, market, or area of activity. A specialist* electrical shop.*
statistician	A mathematician who specializes in statistics.
study	A thing that is or deserves to be investigated the subject of an individual s study. A complex study* of a gay teenager.*
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	Study of the general principles of scientific classification. The taxonomy* of these fossils.*