| Mawson, C.O.S., ed. (1870–1938). Roget’s International Thesaurus. 1922. |
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| Class IV. Words Relating to the Intellectual Faculties | | Division (I) Formation of Ideas | | Section V. Results of Reasoning |
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| 492. Scholar. |
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| NOUN: | SCHOLAR, savant [F.], pundit or pandit [India], schoolman, professor, graduate, wrangler [Cambridge Univ., Eng.], academician, academist [obs.], doctor, fellow, don [Eng. Univ. cant], graduate, postgraduate, clerk [archaic]; Artium Magister [L.], A.M. or M.A., master of arts; Artium Baccalaureus, A.B. or B.A., bachelor of arts; bookman [rare], classicist, licentiate, gownsman; philosopher, philomath; scientist, connoisseur, sophist, sophister; linguist; etymologist, philologist; philologer [now rare]; lexicographer, glossographer, glossologist, lexicologist, scholiast, commentator, annotator; grammarian; littérateur [F.], literati [L.], dilettanti [It.], illuminati; munshi or moonshee [India], mullah [Moslem], moolvi [India], guru [India]; Hebraist, Hellenist, Græcist, Sanskritist; sinologist, sinologue.
BOOKWORM, helluo librorum [L.], bibliophile, bibliophilist, bibliomaniac, bluestocking [colloq.], bas-bleu [F.], high-brow [slang].
Admirable Crichton, Mezzofanti, “learned Theban” [King Lear], Dominie Sampson [Guy Mannering], Socrates.
LEARNED MAN, literary man; homo multarum literarum [L.]; man of -learning, - letters, - education, - genius; giant of learning, colossus of knowledge, prodigy.
ANTIQUARIAN, antiquary, archæologist, Assyriologist, Egyptologist, sage (wise man) [See Sage].
PEDANT, doctrinaire; pedagogue, Dr. Pangloss; pantologist; instructor (teacher) [See Teacher].
STUDENT, learner, classman, senior, junior, sophomore, freshman, pupil, schoolboy (learner) [See Learner].
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| ADJECTIVE: | LEARNED [See Knowledge]; brought up at the feet of Gamaliel.
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| QUOTATIONS: | - He was a scholar, and a ripe and good one.—Henry VIII
- The manifold linguist.—All’s Well That Ends Well
- The office of the scholar is to cheer, to raise, to guide men by showing them facts amidst appearances.—Emerson
- If it were only for a vocabulary, the scholar would be covetous of action.—Emerson
- The modern literary artist is compounded of almost every man except the orator.—Chesterton
- This man decided not to Live but Know.—Browning
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