meaning of scholar
1. 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.
2. 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.
3. A man of books.
4. In English universities, an undergraduate who belongs to the foundation of a college, and receives support in part from its revenues.
5. someone especially a child who learns as from a teacher or takes up knowledge or beliefs
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