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What does "scholar" mean?

Scholar: 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.

Additional senses

  1. 2.A man of books. Bacon.
  2. 3.In English universities, an undergraduate who belongs to the foundation of a college, and receives support in part from its revenues. -- 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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