SCHOLAR

n. 1 academic, professor, teacher, pedagogue, authority, expert, pundit, savant, bookman, book-woman, man or woman of letters, intellectual, highbrow, bookworm, Colloq egghead, brain, US longhair Professor Read is one of the most respected linguistics scholars in the world 2 student, pupil, schoolboy, schoolgirl, undergraduate Cosgrove was a failure as a scholar, preferring football to physics