scholar

Roget category 492

4. Words relating to the intellectual faculties
› 4.5. Results of reasoning
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#492. Scholar

noun

scholar, connoisseur, savant, pundit, schoolman^†, professor, graduate, wrangler — academician, academist^† — master of arts, doctor, licentitate, gownsman — philosopher, master of math — scientist, clerk — sophist, sophister^† — linguist — glossolinguist, philologist — philologer^† — lexicographer, glossographer — grammarian — litterateur [Fr.], literati, dilettanti, illuminati, cogniscenti [It] — fellow, Hebraist, lexicologist, mullah, munshi^†, Sanskritish — sinologist, sinologue^† — Mezzofanti^†, admirable Crichton, Mecaenas.
bookworm, helluo librorum [Lat.] — bibliophile, bibliomaniac^† — bluestocking, bas-bleu [Fr.] — bigwig, learned Theban, don — Artium Baccalaureus [Lat.], Artium Magister [Lat.].
learned man, literary man — homo multarum literarum [Lat.] — man of learning, man of letters, man of education, man of genius.
antiquarian, antiquary — archaeologist.
sage etc. (wise man) 500.
pedant, doctrinaire — pedagogue, Dr.
Pangloss — pantologist^†, criminologist.
schoolboy etc. (learner) 541.

adjective

learned etc. 490 — brought up at the feet of Gamaliel.

phrase

he was a scholar and a ripe and good one" [Henry VIII]; the manifold linguist" [All's Well That Ends Well].

The content on this page comes straight from Project Gutenberg Etext of Roget's Thesaurus No. Two, which consists of the acclaimed work by Peter Mark Roget augmented with more recent material. Some changes were made to the formatting for improved readability.

Bold numbers signify related Roget categories. A dagger symbol (†) indicates archaic words and expressions no longer in common use.

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