SCHOLAR

n.

4 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
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. I am no breeching scholar in the schools. Shak.

2.
n.

One engaged in the pursuits of learning; a learned person; one versed in many branches, of knowledge; a person of high literary or scientific attainments; a savant. Shak. Locke.

3.
n.

A man of books. Bacon.

4.
n.

In English universities, an undergraduate who belongs to the foundation of a college, and receives support in part from its revenues.