scholar
noun
[ ˈskɒlə ]
• a specialist in a particular branch of study, especially the humanities.
• "a Hebrew scholar"
Similar:
academic,
intellectual,
learned person,
professor,
man of letters,
woman of letters,
mind,
intellect,
savant,
polymath,
highbrow,
bluestocking,
authority,
expert,
pundit,
mastermind,
pandit,
rabbi,
egghead,
pointy-head,
bookman,
Origin:
Old English scol(i)ere ‘schoolchild, student’, from late Latin scholaris, from Latin schola (see school1).
