Scholar
scholar (adjective) - a person who studies an academic subject in great depth and who becomes an expert and quite knowledgeable about it
a scholar of Y
a scholar's library
a famous scholar
a considerable scholar
an accomplished scholar
the most accomplished scholar of her age
a scholar of considerable merit
a legal scholar of considerable merit
a biblical scholar
a Pali scholar
a scholar of Sanskrit
a Jewish scholar
that scholar of European distinction
a Chinese scholar official
the most knowledgeable scholar of his day
by far the finest scholar of his generation
a scholar of the traditional type
an outstanding scholar
the outstanding scholar of her year in school
a passable scholar of Y
the most eminent scholar of her time
a scholar with encyclopaedic knowledge and memory
that candid Italian scholar of unimpeachable erudition
a scholar of great significance in the development of Y
a scholar from a distinguished family
to study under a scholar
was to become the foremost biblical scholar of his day
Example sentences:
* "She was an outstanding scholar of Northern European art and took the view that accepting a work into an artist's oeuvre was like recognising a friend, not a matter of measurement or detailed scrutiny."
* He was a legal scholar of considerable merit, he was a very private man, difficult to get to know and to describe.
* "He was formerly Professor of English at York University, was a gentle and gentlemanly scholar of the school of Allardyce Nicoll, his Stratford mentor, a type which is sadly disappearing as universities enter a tougher phase."
* "The title-page describes him simply as a Scholar of New College, Oxford and a Barrister at Law."
* He was a very kind, youngish, amiable scholar of great distinction, and a power in the university."
* "They used that scholar of European distinction, George Buchanan, as their apologist."
* "It is unlikely that any modern scholar of repute has been led astray on that issue."
* "To someone such as I, who had the vague but tenacious idea that Indians communicated in pictures only, a fragile method, it is pleasant to see that one scholar of native American languages calls the manuscripts 'the largest corpus of texts' of them and 'a remarkable resource.'"
* "She was also a considerable scholar of Latin poetry of the Middle Ages."
* "One prominent scholar of Italian paintings believes that the National Gallery was ill served by the loan which seems to have been a rather persuasive pre-sale exhibition for the benefit of Lady Cook."
* "The library of art history books belonging to this famous scholar of the Italian Renaissance who died in 1990 has been acquired by the French state."
* "He was a scholar of neurotic temperament."
* "She has been described as 'the most accomplished English scholar of her age."
* "There they gathered, the employee who lacks employment, the faithless priest, the investor about to hang himself in the expectation of plenty, the physician who will not be able to heal herself, the director who lacks all direction, the historian who denies the existence of history, the Jewish scholar of early Renaissance Christian iconography, the deaf man who hears voices, the woman about to be taken in adultery."
* "He was the most knowledgeable liturgical scholar of his day but his published work, and hence his influence, was reduced by an over-strained attention to detail and other scholarly opinion."
* "More than any scholar of his generation he kept Greek literature alive at a time when it had ceased to be a compulsory subject in many schools."
* "He was also by far the finest English Mozart scholar of his generation."
* "This work gave him his reputation as a young scholar of great originality."
* She was probably the most eminent scholar of nonconformity of her time, with an encyclopaedic knowledge and memory."
* "He therefore lends some support to that candid Italian scholar of unimpeachable erudition, Aurelio Peretti, who, in the year 1942, tried to persuade himself (and if possible his readers) that no man of Indo-Germanic blood could have protested against Rome: only Jews and other Orientals scribbled Sibylline oracles against the ruling power (La Sibilla Babilonese, 1943)."
* "The man who first posed the "Homeric question" in this, its modern, form was Friedrich August Wolf (1759-1824), a scholar of great significance in the development of classical studies in Germany."
* "Muhammad Shah al-Fenari (Fenarizade Zeyneddin), an Ottoman scholar of a distinguished family, though not himself of great distinction, whose previous post had been the (kasabat) kadilik of Tire."
* "She was certainly not a scholar of the traditional type."
* This Englishman from Lincolnshire was to become the foremost biblical scholar of his day and was to stay and teach in Paris.
* "Very brilliant, very smart, very lively and the outstanding scholar of her year."
* "Now she's a passable scholar of Hebrew, and she hopes to take back her knowledge to China."
