Definition of scholar

• n. - 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.
• n. - 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.
• n. - A man of books.
• n. - In English universities, an undergraduate who belongs to the foundation of a college, and receives support in part from its revenues.