Other forms: scholars
A scholar is a person devoted to deep learning and study. A great scholar, a scholar of Greek, scholars disagree.
It belongs to the humanities more than the sciences — one speaks of a scholar of Dante and a researcher in physics. It also means the holder of a scholarship. Note the Greek schole, which meant leisure, because study was what free time was for.
1nounscholarA person devoted to deep learning.
“He was a respected scholar of ancient Chinese poetry.”
2nounholderThe holder of a scholarship.
“As a scholar at the college, she pays no fees and gets a free room.”
scholar is a learned person.
Also accepted in games: academic
Latin scholaris comes from schola, a school, from Greek schole, leisure. Study was what leisure was for.
Proto-Indo-European
*seǵʰ-
Middle English
scolere
English, today
scholar
Built from
From Middle English scolere. From Middle English scolar, scolare, scoler, scolere (also scholer), from Old English scōlere (“scholar, learner”), from Latin scholāris, from schola (“school”), from Ancient Greek σχολή (“spare time, leisure", later, "conversations and the knowledge gained through them during free time; the places where these conversations took place”), equivalent to school + ar. a doublet of schooler and Schuyler and escolar. Compare stq Sköiler, Middle Low German schö̂lære, schö̂lere, schö̂ler (> modern German Low German Schöler), Dutch scholier, German Schüler.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA