1 a person who knows a lot about a particular subject because they have studied it in detail:
a biblical / classical scholar * He was the most distinguished scholar in his field.
2 a student who has been given a scholarship to study at a school, college or university:
a Rhodes scholar
3 (BrE, informal) a clever person who works hard at school:
I was never much of a scholar.
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Is scholar a noun, verb, or something else?
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