#492. Scholar.-- N. scholar, connoisseur, savant, pundit, schoolman[obs], professor, graduate, wrangler; academician, academist[obs]; master of arts, doctor, licentitate, gownsman; philosopher, master of math; scientist, clerk; sophist, sophister[obs]; linguist; glossolinguist, philologist; philologer[obs]; lexicographer, glossographer; grammarian; litterateur[Fr], literati, dilettanti, illuminati, cogniscenti[It]; fellow, Hebraist, lexicologist, mullah, munshi[obs], Sanskritish; sinologist, sinologue[obs]; Mezzofanti[obs], admirable Crichton, Mecaenas.
bookworm, helluo librorum[Lat]; bibliophile, bibliomaniac[obs]; bluestocking, bas-bleu[Fr]; bigwig, learned Theban, don; Artium Baccalaureus[Lat][obs], 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 &c. (wise man) 500.
pedant, doctrinaire; pedagogue, Dr. Pangloss; pantologist[obs], criminologist.
schoolboy &c. (learner) 541.
Adj. learned &c. 490; brought up at the feet of Gamaliel.
Phr. "he was a scholar and a ripe and good one" [Henry VIII]; "the manifold linguist" [All's Well That Ends Well].