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Word Meanings - SCHOLAR - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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. One engaged in the pursuits of learning; a learned person;

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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. 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. A man of books. Bacon. 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.

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  • SCHOLARSHIP
    1. The character and qualities of a scholar; attainments in science or literature; erudition; learning. A man of my master's . . . great scholarship. Pope. 2. Literary education. Any other house of scholarship. Milton. 3. Maintenance for a scholar;
  • CATECHUMENIST
    A catechumen. Bp. Morton.
  • CATECHUMENATE
    The state or condition of a catechumen or the time during which one is a catechumen.
  • STUDENTRY
    A body of students.
  • STUDENT
    1. A person engaged in study; one who is devoted to learning; a learner; a pupil; a scholar; especially, one who attends a school, or who seeks knowledge from professional teachers or from books; as, the students of an academy, a college, or a
  • NOVICE
    One who enters a religious house, whether of monks or nuns, as a probationist. Shipley. No poore cloisterer, nor no novys. Chaucer. (more info) 1. One who is new in any business, profession, or calling; one unacquainted or unskilled; one yet in
  • CATECHUMEN
    One who is receiving rudimentary instruction in the doctrines of Christianity; a neophyte; in the primitive church, one officially recognized as a Christian, and admitted to instruction preliminary to admission to full membership in the church.
  • PUPILLARY
    Of or pertaining to the pupil of the eye. (more info) 1. Of or pertaining to a pupil or ward. Johnson.
  • DISCIPLESS
    A female disciple.
  • SCHOLARLY
    Like a scholar, or learned person; showing the qualities of a scholar; as, a scholarly essay or critique. -- adv.
  • PUPILLARITY
    The period before puberty, or from birth to fourteen in males, and twelve in females. (more info) Law)
  • DISCIPLESHIP
    The state of being a disciple or follower in doctrines and precepts. Jer. Taylor.
  • DISCIPLE
    One who receives instruction from another; a scholar; a learner; especially, a follower who has learned to believe in the truth of the doctrine of his teacher; an adherent in doctrine; as, the disciples of Plato; the disciples of our Savior. The
  • LEARNER
    One who learns; a scholar.
  • SCHOLARLIKE
    Scholarly. Bacon.
  • STUDENTSHIP
    The state of being a student.
  • BEGINNER
    One who begins or originates anything. Specifically: A young or inexperienced practitioner or student; a tyro. A sermon of a new beginner. Swift.
  • PUPILLOMETER
    An instrument for measuring the size of the pupil of the pupil of the eye.
  • CATECHUMENICAL
    Of or pertaining to catechumens; as, catechumenical instructions.
  • PUPIL
    The aperture in the iris; the sight, apple, or black of the eye. See the Note under Eye, and Iris. Pin-hole pupil , the pupil of the eye when so contracted (as it sometimes is in typhus, or opium poisoning) as to resemble a pin hole. Dunglison.
  • CONDISCIPLE
    A schoolfellow; a fellow-student.
  • BIPUPILLATE
    Having an eyelike spot on the wing, with two dots within it of a different color, as in some butterflies.

 

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