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Webster 1913 Edition

Scholar

Schol′ar

,
Noun.
[OE.
scoler
, AS.
scōlere
, fr. L.
scholaris
belonging to a school, fr.
schola
a school. See
School
.]
1.
One who attends a school; one who learns of a teacher; one under the tuition of a preceptor; a pupil; a disciple; a learner; a student.
I am no breeching
scholar
in the schools.
Shakespeare
2.
One engaged in the pursuits of learning; a learned person; one versed in any branch, or in many branches, of knowledge; a person of high literary or scientific attainments; a savant.
Shak. Locke.
3.
A man of books.
Bacon.
4.
In English universities, an undergraduate who belongs to the foundation of a college, and receives support in part from its revenues.
Syn. – Pupil; learner; disciple.
–
Scholar
,
Pupil
. Scholar refers to the instruction, and pupil to the care and government, of a teacher. A scholar is one who is under instruction; a pupil is one who is under the immediate and personal care of an instructor; hence we speak of a bright scholar, and an obedient pupil.

Webster 1828 Edition

Scholar

SCHOL'AR

,
Noun.
[Low L. scholaris, from schola, a school; Gr. leisure, a school. See School.]
1.
One who learns of a teacher; one who is under the tuition of a preceptor; a pupil; a disciple; hence, any member of a college, academy or school; applicable to the learner of any art, science or branch of literature.
2.
A man of letters.
3.
Emphatically used, a man eminent for erudition; a person of high attainments in science or literature.
4.
One that learns any thing; as an apt scholar in the school of vice.
5.
A pedant; a man of books. [But the word scholar seldom conveys the idea of a pedant.]

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