How do you use the word "scholar" in a sentence?

Here are real-life examples of using "scholar": Judging from what you say, he must be a great scholar. Everybody loved the simple scholar.

Scholar Meaning

/ˈskɒlə/

Definition, CEFR level B2, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.

Definition

nounA student; one who studies at school or college, typically having a scholarship.

nounA specialist in a particular branch of knowledge.

Sentence Examples

Judging from what you say, he must be a great scholar.

Everybody loved the simple scholar.

Synonyms & Antonyms

Synonyms:

student learner

Antonyms:

None

CEFR Practice Quiz

The respected ____ spent many years studying ancient texts and foreign languages.

CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)

The medieval ____ spent decades translating ancient Greek texts into Latin.

Word Origin & History

From Middle English scolar, scolare, scoler, scolere (also scholer), from Old English scōlere (“scholar, learner”), from Late Latin scholāris, from schola (“school”), from Ancient Greek σχολή (skholḗ, “spare time, leisure", later, "conversations and the knowledge gained through them during free time; the places where these conversations took place”), equivalent to school + -ar. Doublet of schooler, Schuyler, and escolar. Compare Saterland Frisian Sköiler, Middle Low German schö̂lære, schö̂lere, schö̂ler (> modern German Low German Schöler), Dutch scholier, German Schüler.

Literary Quotations & Historical Citations

"The ability of a segment of a glass sphere to magnify whatever is placed before it was known around the year 1000, when the spherical segment was called a reading stone,[…]. Scribes, illuminators, and scholars held such stones directly over manuscript pages as an aid in seeing what was being written, drawn, or read." — 2013 September-October, Henry Petroski, “The Evolution of Eyeglasses”, in American Scientist:

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