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Entry 4 senses Webster, 1913

Scholar

/skäl'-ẽr/ · Schol·ar · IPA /ˈskɑlɚ/
01 n. 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.
  1. 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.
    “I am no breeching scholar in the schools.” — Shak.
  2. 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. 3.
    A man of books.
  4. 4.
    In English universities, an undergraduate who belongs to the foundation of a college, and receives support in part from its revenues.
Syn. Pupil; learner; disciple.
Scholar, Pupil. Scholar refers to the instruction, and pupil to the care and government, of a teacher. A scholar is one who is under instruction; a pupil is one who is under the immediate and personal care of an instructor; hence we speak of a bright scholar, and an obedient pupil.