Topic Thesaurus
Roget's Thesaurus

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
  • literati, dilettanti, illuminati
  • fellow, Hebraist, lexicologist, mullah, munshi, Sanskritish
  • sinologist, sinologue
  • Mezzofanti, admirable Crichton, Mecaenas. bookworm
  • bibliophile, bibliomaniac
  • bluestocking
  • bigwig, learned Theban, don
  • literary man
  • man of learning, man of letters, man of education, man of genius. antiquarian, antiquary
  • archaeologist. sage etc. (wise man) Sage. pedant, doctrinaire
  • pedagogue, Dr. Pangloss
  • pantologist, criminologist. schoolboy etc. (learner) Learner.
Adjectives
  • learned etc. Knowledge
  • 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].