Emily Dickinson Lexicon

SCHOL'AR, n. [Low L. scholaris, from schola, a school; Gr. σχολη, leisure, a school; Fr. ecolier; D. schoolier; G. schüler; Dan. skolelærd. The Danish word signifies schoolbooks. 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. – Locke.
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. – Bacon. [But the word scholar seldom conveys the idea of a pedant.]
6. A person, in English universities, who belongs to the foundation of a college, and receives a portion of its revenues.