Roget's Thesaurus

#492. Scholar

Nouns

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.

Adjectives

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

Phrases

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