Definition of scholartree
1. scholar [ n ] a learned person (especially in the humanities); someone who by long study has gained mastery in one or more disciplines
Used in print:(Tristram P. Coffin, "Folklore in the American Twentieth...)
Therefore , the scholar , as he looks_at our national folklore of the last 60 years , will be mindful of two facts .
(Chester G. Starr, The Origins of Greek Civili...)
Those modern scholars who urge that we must keep in mind the fundamental continuity of Aegean development from earliest times - granted occasional irruptions of peoples and ideas from outside - are correct ; but all_too many observers have been misled by this fact into minimizing the degree of change which took_place in the early first millennium .
(J. H. Hexter, "Thomas More: On the Margins...)
Had More 's writings been wholly limited to such exercises , they would be almost as dimly remembered as those of a dozen or_so other authors living in his time , whose works tenuously survive in the minds of the few hundred scholars who each decade in pursuit of their very specialized occasions read those works .
generous public provision for the infirm ; democratic and secret elections of all officers including priests , meals taken publicly in common refectories ; a common habit or uniform prescribed for all citizens ; even houses changed once a decade ; six hours of manual_labor a day for all but a handful of magistrates and scholars , and careful measures to prevent anyone from shirking ; no private_property , no money ; no sort of pricing at_all for any goods or services , and therefore no market in the economic sense of the term .
Synonyms student scholar scholarly_person Related Terms intellectual historian reader philosopher theologian alumnus Renaissance_man humanist pedant initiate Renaissance_man salutatorian doctor Schoolman cabalist mujtihad vedist valedictorian bibliographer Sinologist Arabist goliard Erasmus musicologist scholiast master licentiate lorenzo_de_medici crichton marcus_terentius_varro edmond_malone masorete classicist post_doc bibliophile academician2. scholar [ n ] someone (especially a child) who learns (as from a teacher) or takes up knowledge or beliefs
Used in print:(Louis Zara, Dark Rider....)
`` We have nine hundred and eleven members in our charge '' , Mama announced , `` and three hundred and eighty Sunday-school scholars '' .
Synonyms scholar learner assimilator Related Terms person enrollee quick_study swot memorizer tutee absorb3. scholar [ n ] a student who holds a scholarship
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