scholar
/skˈɑlɝ/
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Noun
a learned person (especially in the humanities); someone who by long study has gained mastery in one or more disciplines
Noun
someone (especially a child) who learns (as from a teacher) or takes up knowledge or beliefs
Noun
a student who holds a scholarship
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academician
alum
alumna
alumnus
Arabist
bibliographer
bibliophile
book lover
booklover
bookworm
Cabalist
doctor
Dr.
dweeb
generalist
goliard
grad
graduate
grind
historian
historiographer
humanist
initiate
Islamist
Kabbalist
learned person
licentiate
Masorete
Masorite
Massorete
master
medieval Schoolman
memoriser
memorizer
mujtihad
musicologist
nerd
pedant
philomath
philosopher
post doc
postdoc
pundit
quick study
reader
Renaissance man
Rhodes scholar
salutatorian
salutatory speaker
savant
scholastic
scholiast
Schoolman
Shakespearean
Shakespearian
Sinologist
sponge
swot
theologian
theologiser
theologist
theologizer
tutee
valedictorian
valedictory speaker
Vedist
wonk