King James Bible Dictionary

SCHOL'AR, noun [Low Latin 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.]

SCHOLAR'ITY, noun Scholarship. [Not used.]

SCHOL'AR-LIKE, adjective Like a scholar; becoming a scholar.

SCHOL'ARSHIP, noun

1. Learning; attainments in science or literature; as a man of great scholarship

2. Literary education; as any other house of scholarship [Unusual.]

3. Exhibition or maintenance for a scholar; foundation for the support of a student.