Scholar
Webster's Dictionary [1]
(1): ( n.) In English universities, an undergraduate who belongs to the foundation of a college, and receives support in part from its revenues.
(2): ( n.) One engaged in the pursuits of learning; a learned person; one versed in any branch, or in many branches, of knowledge; a person of high literary or scientific attainments; a savant.
(3): ( n.) A man of books.
(4): ( n.) 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.
King James Dictionary [2]
Schol'Ar, n. Low L. scholaris, from schola, a school Gr. leisure, a school. See School.
1. One who learns of a teacher one who is under the tuition of a preceptor a pupil a disciple hence, any member of a college, academy or school applicable to the learner of any art, science or branch of literature. 2. A man of letters. 3. Emphatically used, a man eminent for erudition a person of high attainments in science or literature. 4. One that learns any thing as an apt scholar in the school of vice. 5. A pedant a man of books. But the word scholar seldom conveys the idea of a pedant.
