scholar

I

(New American Roget's College Thesaurus)

n. savant, sage (see knowledge); bookworm; man of learning, letters, or education; pedant, pedagogue; student. See school, learning.

II

(Roget's IV) n.

1. [A pupil]

Syn. student, schoolboy, schoolgirl, learner; see student .

2. [An expert in humanistic studies]

Syn. philosopher, savant, pundit, authority, sage, professor, academic, teacher, doctor, litterateur, learned person; see also critic 2 , intellectual , scientist .

Scholars include: editor, textual critic, lexicographer, historian, biographer, bibliographer, comparativist, linguist, philologist, semanticist, paleographer, historiographer, archaeologist, demographer, geographer, geopolitician, political scientist, sociologist, philosopher, folklorist, anthropologist, economist, ethnologist, cartographer, classicist, humanist, behaviorist, dialectologist, rhetorician, grammarian, etymologist, musicologist, literary historian, theologian, orientalist. See Synonym Study at student .

III

(Roget's 3 Superthesaurus) n.

learned person, educated person, intellectual, *brain, man of letters, *egghead, highbrow, professor, teacher, student, pupil, *walking encyclopedia, *know-it-all, authority, expert, pundit, savant, polymath. ''A man long on advice but short on action.''—Elbert Hubbard.

ANT.: ignoramus, idiot, *airhead, imbecile

IV

(Roget's Thesaurus II) noun 1. A usually elderly person noted for wisdom, knowledge, and judgment: pundit, sage, savant. See WISE. 2. One who is being educated: learner, pupil, student. See TEACH.