scholar — OET

scholar

noun

1 a leading French biblical scholar:

academic, intellectual, learned person, professor, man of letters, woman of letters, mind, intellect, savant, polymath, highbrow, bluestocking;

authority, expert, pundit, mastermind;

Hinduism pandit;

Judaism rabbi;

informal egghead;

North American, informal pointy-head;

archaic bookman.

2 archaic after two or three months there were 28 scholars:

pupil, student, schoolchild, schoolboy, schoolgirl, learner.

scholar Oxford Dictionary of English